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House Seen Passing Key China Trade Bill

By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deeply divided U.S. House of Representatives was expected on Wednesday to narrowly approve a fiercely contested China trade bill, in what would be a monumental victory for President Clinton, pro-business Republicans in Congress and economic reformers in Beijing.

Why Expand China Trade? Everyone Wins

USA Today As Congress prepares today to vote on normalizing trade with China, the air is choked with competing arguments, just as it was during the debate on free trade with Canada and Mexico in 1993. Now, as then, the easiest way for Americans to cut to the heart of the matter is to assess what's in the deal for them. The short answer is "plenty."

Reckoning with China

Washington Post

Nothing Normal About China

Boston Globe / By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist / 5/22/2000 It will be time to upgrade China's trade status with the United States when the Chinese government stops torturing middle-aged widows to death.

President Views Success of China Trade Bill as His Foreign Policy Legacy

The New York Times / By DAVID E. SANGER

As Tight Vote Nears on China Trade, Backers and Foes Flood TV

Washington Post/ By Charles Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer / Monday, May 22, 2000 With Congress scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to grant permanent normal trading relations to China, both camps yesterday flooded television talk shows with advocates and paid commercials, and President Clinton called the pact essential on moral, economic and national security grounds.

European Union, China Toast WTO Deal

Reuters | By Paul Eckert BEIJING - Clinking champagne glasses and smiling broadly, top trade officials of China and the European Union toasted a market opening deal Friday that removes the last major hurdle to China's membership of the WTO.

The Biggest Vote

The New York Times / ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- The most far-reaching vote any representative will cast this year will take place next week. It will be on the bill to permanently guarantee that Congress will have no economic leverage to restrain China's internal repression of dissidents or external aggression against Taiwan.

"PNTR Plus" Will Pressure China from Inside and Out

The Cato Institute / by Deroy Murdock Deroy Murdock is a Senior Fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and a policy advisor to the Cato Institute.

China, Mexico: Same Depressing Tale on Labor Rights

LA Times World affairs: Economic openness doesn't cure all ills, as we have learned with NAFTA. By HARLEY SHAIKEN