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...hardships imposed from the outside by leeching off resources that should have been destined for their citizens. In the case of China, whose size, population, and regional influence, make it abundantly more independent than the comparatively tiny island of Cuba, there is all the more reason to believe that Deng Xiaoping's government will find ways to adapt to the loss of its MFN status without changing its policy on human rights...
...revocation of china's MFN status would not only fail to produce the policy's desired effect (i.e. better human rights for the Chinese), but could actually lead Deng's government to grow more intransigent on human rights, and, in general, more recalcitrant in its dealings with the United States. Failure to renew MFN would rightly be perceived by China as a kind of economic ultimatum; this perception could start a vicious circle of political retaliation. China could decide not only to treat its pro-democracy dissidents more severely, but it could choose not to cooperate on other issues important...
Decoupling the issues, in fact, could increase Clinton's ability to criticize Beijing's internal policies (especially after Deng Xiaoping dies, when spasms of chaos and repression may occur as a struggle for power ensues). Free from fear that bashing Beijing would reignite the MFN debate, the President could openly embrace China's dissidents and encourage U.S. firms to voluntarily tie their China business to improved human-rights practices, as many American companies did when apartheid flourished in South Africa. If conditions so worsened that punitive actions were called for, the U.S. could champion cutbacks in international lending; China...
...dissidents over the past two weeks. Hundreds of others are under close surveillance. Beijing is reacting to the first stirrings of a revived democracy movement. Not only are dissidents seeking public attention during a period in which the U.S. is demanding that China improve its human-rights record and Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader, is fading, but the hard-line government fears a newfound boldness among the activists. The men in power detect signs that their real nightmare -- an alliance of workers and intellectuals along the lines of Poland's Solidarity that could bring together a popular force mighty...
...Deng Nan, daughter of Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Premier, as quoted by the Associated Press in The New York Times on March...