Word: extended
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Bill Clinton, addicted to compromise, is again close to foolishly splitting the difference on a crucial foreign policy issue. The question this time is whether the U.S. should continue or retard the growing two-way trade between America and China. By June 3, the President must decide to extend or revoke Beijing's most-favored-nation trading status...
...third option would extend MFN with less rigorous trip wires. "Perhaps human rights could be a general condition rather than one that's filled with specific conditions," said Secretary of State Warren Christopher on March 13. Any compromise, he added, could "move the relationship to a new and more significant level." And a more hypocritical one as well...
...committee decided to extend the effort into April in an attempt to "get the highest participation of any Senior Class," Chen said...
...first order of goods was being shipped, however, the picture changed again. Officials at the Defense Technology Security Administration learned about the deal after they read a wire between the U.S. embassy in Beijing and the State Department. Fearing that China intended to use the Garrett engine to extend the range and payload capacity of its Silkworm missile, the agency raised furious objections...
Regardless of whether the engine eventually becomes the centerpiece of a Chinese cruise missile, the Garrett deal undermines the noisy debate over whether the U.S. should extend China's most-favored-nation status. Viewed against the backdrop of assurances by Secretary of State Warren Christopher that the Clinton Administration will cut off MFN unless China improves its human-rights behavior, the Garrett sale only reinforces Beijing's impression that U.S. demands are a charade...