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...Clinton has reinvigorated the presidency. Americans finally have a president actively engaged in solving the real problems of real people. Clinton has often noted that the American people desperately want their government to work, but have been betrayed by it for too long. His activism has begun to renew the hope that government can, once again, begin to work for them...
...later described as a "vivid and animated" discussion. Among other things, Clinton requested progress on human rights for dissidents and Tibetans and an end to Chinese sales of missile technology to nations like Pakistan and Iran. Without "overall significant progress" on human rights, Clinton has promised he will not renew China's most-favored-natio n trading status next spring. The discussion grew so vigorous that at one point, according to a White House official, Jiang delivered a 15-minute lecture "on the importance of non-intervention in China's internal affairs...
Officially, the Administration won't renew MFN next June unless there is "significant overall progress" with respect to human rights in China. In practice, Christopher told TIME, "I'll look at the trend . . . We don't expect them to remedy all the wrongs . . . Little things like prison visits, whether they permit the Red Cross to go in" to inspect jail conditions could help a great deal. Within 48 hours of Christopher's comment, the Chinese did just that. But then in a letter to Clinton last week, 270 members of the U.S. House of Representatives demanded more -- and Christopher, whose...
Like Presidents before him, Clinton has learned that China is just too big to bully and too important to ignore. With relations getting worse almost from the time he took office, Clinton had to face the real possibility that if Congress refuses to renew China's most-favored-nation tariff status next June, it could lead to a serious, even dangerous, breach with the world's next superpower...
...fewest working hours, debate over the future of the "social market economy" dominates the headlines. While the Federation of German Industry, the umbrella management association, is calling for a "fundamental reorientation" of the pay and benefits system, the metal and electrical industries have served notice that they will not renew expiring contracts on pay and holidays. The government spent a record 33.1% of GDP -- $633 billion -- for social programs in 1992 but hopes to squeeze $26 billion from households this year by raising retirement contributions and paring payments for social welfare...