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Human-rights organizations, however, are leaning hard on Clinton to be tough. They point to China's continued export of goods made with prison labor: under Clinton's own Executive Order, Beijing must stop that to retain MFN. Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner, showed Congress tapes of prisoners at forced labor that he had secretly filmed on a five-week trip this year. Says Wu: "Fifty percent of Chinese rubber products come from chemical factories that employ forced labor." Human Rights Watch/Asia says latex gloves used by doctors were exported as recently as last January only after being...
...United Nations needs to understand that sanctions don't work with countries that don't have anything to export but cheap shoes and hapless refugees...
...have to get the Chinese on board, and they will not come on board without settling a whole host of other issues so that they become part of the world management team for peace, stability, progress. One day you hammer them for human rights, the second day for the export of prison-produced goods. The third day for something else, and the fourth day you tell them: We are friends, so help me settle this...
Economically, the policy of revoking China's MFN would be deleterious both to the U.S. and to China. This policy would involve raising the average tariffs on Chinese goods by 5 to 10 times, which, according to a study by the World Bank, would reduce Chinese exports to the US between 42% and 96%. Some estimate that such a reduction could cost China up to $10 billion in annual exports to the U.S., and millions of jobs in export industries. China would surely retaliate, and this would hurt...
...America's moral principles and cripple Chinese-American commerce, which last year totaled almost $40 billion. Gone in the process would probably be any chance of enlisting Beijing's help in rolling back North Korea's nuclear-weapons program. Gone too would be approximately 200,000 high-paying U.S. export jobs, which is why Treasury, Commerce and White House economic officials favor retaining...