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...authorize American ships and planes to carry Chinese cargoes and American-owned foreign flag ships to call at Chinese ports. He also disclosed that the Administration is drawing up a list of nonstrategic goods that U.S. companies will be allowed to ex port directly to China. The remaining embargo on sales to China will still restrict some goods that can be exported to the Soviet Union, which has a more sophisticated technology than China. Even so, trade with China could amount to several hundred million dollars over the next decade (see BUSINESS...
Even before President Nixon lifted the embargo on direct trade with China (see THE WORLD), some of America's largest companies were breaking into Mao's market. Among them: General Motors, Monsanto, Hercules, Cummins Engine and American Optical. U.S. business with the Chinese has risen from nothing in 1969, when the Administration first began easing trade restrictions, to $3,500,000 last year...
...same day, President Nixon an nounced a relaxation of the 20-year embargo on trade with China, a plan for expediting visas for Chinese visitors to the United States, and three other moves designed to improve relations...
First of all, it's not fit to talk about resumption, it never ended. Of course, the Nixon administration just plainly lied to Congress. Not only did they break the embargo in August '68, without letting anyone know, but beyond that they used the escape valve of the Surplus Weapons Act, and they gave a hundred million dollars worth of surplus weapons to Greece under that act, over which the Congress has nothing...
...temperate. About the angriest reaction came from Democratic Presidential Hopeful George McGovern, who blasted the Administration for imposing "the longest news blackout of the war."* Added he: "What a way to run a war! What a way to manage a free society!" The U.S. command in Saigon defended the embargo as essential to keeping the enemy guessing about allied intentions...