Democracy and human rights should replace nationalism, non-interventionism and a knee-jerk anti-Americanism as the values inspiring Mexican foreign policy, he argued.

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What is most important to establish and remember is that a passion for military non-interventionism is not alien to respectable American politics.

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The government promises businesses support but no interference - a policy of "positive non-interventionism" vital to its role as a financial and trading center.

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"The so-called policy of positive non-interventionism before the handover was actually a policy of no commitment and no planning, " says Tsang Shu-ki, economics professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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