U.S. Trade with China

The expansion of trade has always figured prominently in President Clinton's foreign policy agenda. For instance, Clinton's economic program included the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and a new trading agreement negotiated by the member nations of GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, now renamed the World Trade Organization). Early in his administration, Clinton exhibited a tough stance against China by threatening heavy punitive tariffs on imports as a way of pressuring Beijing to halt the black-market pirating of U.S. movies, CDs, and computer software: "China has followed the Third World line in taking full advantage of Western products without paying the companies that own them" (Overholt 385). Nevertheless, in 1994, Clinton extended China's "most favored nation" trading status with the United States.

The trading status of "most favored nation" is an important designation.

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ately changed the subject: "Chinese officials continued rebuffing such appeals as 'intervention in China's internal affairs' and 'unwelcome'" (Liu and Bogert 45). Jiang contends that the Communist treatment of dissidents has been necessary to preserve structure and order in Chinese society. Perhaps the most critical issue in U.S.-China relations concerns the national interest of the American people. The security and military power of Asia are important concerns for the United States. China is a potentially hostile power because of its aggressive efforts to dominate the East Asian region. The people of Tibet have suffered severely under communism, China has openly intimidated Taiwan with military force, and China is allied with communist North Korea. Although China does not yet have the military power to realize its dream of domination it is likely that it will acquire the military capability to do so in the future. America's current foreign policy toward China largely ignores this threat: "In Asia, the Clinton administration often subordinated the pursuit of security to the pursuit of trade, in the fashionable but mistaken belief that a good business climate will lead more or less automatically to a good security climat
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Approximate Word count = 1861
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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