When first faced with the option to grant MFN status it was well known that China participated in flagrant human rights abuses. Some examples of this abuse are the production of goods through prison labor, imprisonment of political dissidents, and the Tiananmen Square incident. Furthermore, China was also known to be selling dangerous technology to rouge states, which was a violation of the MTCR agreement. These flagrant abuses of power led some Americans to believe we should not grant MFN status to China. On the other hand, supporters of MFN status look at the issue and point out that 150,000 American jobs rely on Chinese trade, and furthermore they believe that trade with China will lead to more democratic refo

2) The two main worldviews that underlay the various positions of the U.S. debate over China Policy are system reformers and system maintainers. System reformers believe in the individual as well as the reliance on the international system. By focusing on the individual, system reformers show that they want to bring Human Rights to the forefront, and it also shows that for a system reformer Free Trade and Human Rights must be linked with the China policy. Thus system reformers are mainly opposed to the signing of MFN status without significant reforms.

Of course the critics of Clinton have some valid arguments. Some argue that this move will only further convince the Chinese elite that they can punish nonconformists. An example many critics like to point out was the “sentencing of Wan Dan, a leader of the 1989 democracy movement” soon after MFN status was signed. However, these critics would be wrong to look past the strides China has made or conclude that “more stable trade relations with the West would not strengthen China's growing non-state sector and give individuals [such as Wan Dan] greater autonomy.”

Finally, I feel that we made the correct decision because over the past t

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