China and the 1995 United Nations conference on women
This study looks at the ways in which China's hosting of the 1995 United Nations Conference on Women failed to improve China's international prestige. China made enormous commitments of resources to the meetings. However, China did not benefit because of its own internal policies, because of a series of political events that, in conjunction with media coverage, created a critical environment, and because of the deteriorating relationship between China and the US.
America's China Policy in the Age of the Finance Minister: Clinton Ends Linkage
It turned out that MFN was useful as a tool only to bludgeon George Bush. Democratic Staff Member in the House of Representatives President Clinton's determination to put economic policy at the heart of our foreign policy is evident in the areas where we have succeeded…. Secretary of State Warren Christopher In Asia – excluding Japan – they will spend a trillion dollars in infrastructure of all types in the next decade. That's a Century Freeway every week…. I'm from Texas. I'm used to big. But it is difficult to comprehend how big that market is and how those economies are transforming. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen speaking in California [President Clinton has] enmeshed himself in a web of his own spinning… If a politician always sets such deadlines, then he will only have his own hands and feet bound. Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen The United States maintains a triple standard. For their own human rights problems they shut their eyes. For some other countries’ human rights questions they open one eye and shut the other. And for China, they open both eyes and stare. Chinese Finance Minister Liu Zhongli In the end, economic interests won the day. It wasn't really even close…. This is the age of the Finance Minister. Thomas L. Friedman, journalist
Beyond MFN : trade with China and American interests
By the year 2010, experts say, China may be the world's largest economy, with a prosperous middle class conducting business throughout East Asia and the world. Beyond MFN explores America's increasingly important relationship with the world's most populous country and fastest-growing economy. Looking beyond the annual debate on MFN, this book examines the complex economic, strategic, and ideological issues confronting U.S. policy makers in this critical bilateral relationship. The recent history of Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan indicates that political pluralism and the rule of law follow the development of a market economy open to the West. How can the United States best encourage such trends in China? The volume also explores the views of the Chinese people themselves, the changing human rights policies of the Chinese government, the political implications of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, and the internal deliberations within the Clinton administration on China policy. From these diverse perspectives emerges comprehensive understanding as to how a policy of broad-based engagement can best serve American interests as well as the aspirations of the Chinese people.