If we look at the UN conventions on political and civil rights, I think you can see where China hasn't fully ratified all of the conditions. I think one area--for example, on the use of the death penalty and things like that--is where you can see China is gradually shifting to constraining its liberal use of the death penalty.
That's where, through constructive engagements, for example, on CIDA's programs in China, we've been able to bring over Canadian legal specialists, practitioners, who have been able to work with the Chinese side to both encourage them to limit the use of the death penalty, but also to work with them on other legal reforms that can be brought into the Chinese system. I think that's one type of method at the bilateral level. And then I guess at the international level, through the UN, is where there's a need for building up consensus and agreement on the actual conventions themselves. That's where I see the importance of diplomacy, at these two levels: bilateral, through foreign aid programming, and then diplomatic, at the multilateral.