Is it true that Clinton gave China most favored nation status?

[burythehatchet]

If that is true, then it puts Hillary's service to WalMart in an entirely new light.

huh

[Yael]

1. Yes, I do believe he did.

Just after NAFTA.

[Dems Will Win]

13. Not only that, he signed a 2% tariff on Chinese goods in US but a 40% TARIFF ON US GOODS IN CHINA!!!

That fucker.

That's why all of us are feeling the jobs slip from beneath our feet!

[XemaSab]

2. Yup

:patriot:

[LakeSamish706]

3. Yes he did, and rammed it down Congress's throat in the process. n/t

[mathewsleep]

4. they're a big fan of lead. hrmm.... lead.

[Whisp]

10. Bill was thinking about lead in his pencil. nt

[LSparkle]

5. This issue isn't going away ... PA may be closer than she thinks

It's suffered under NAFTA and if Obama is smart, he'll keep reminding
voters of how we ended up with this terrible deal.

[burythehatchet]

7. He's going to start a 5 day bus tour it seems

in PA. I envy the DUers who will get to see him.

[sandnsea]

6. They are also HUGE friends to Indian business

It's a shame the Obama press release included that "Punjab" remark because the rest of it is true and would be of interest to working class voters. The Clintons laid the groundwork for all the global outsourcing and are still buddies with the biggest outsourcers, even the ones who have been convicted of monetary crimes.

[burythehatchet]

8. I am coming to that realization, having been fairly ignorant of trade issues

until recently.

[Blue State Bandit]

9. He re-affirmed it.

1997

http://clinton2.nara.gov/New/Remarks/Mon/19970519-8099.html

and 1994

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n10_v5/ai_15144699

[Coexist]

11. yes, and *sigh* I defended them

even though I thought it sucked beyone belief, from a Human Rights standpoint.

I did the whole, "well, they are an imortant trade partner for us, yadayadayada..."

[sandnsea]

14. There's a right way and a wrong way

And if she got her ass on the teevee to slam the bad side of trade the way she does when she wants to slam Democrats, I might give her some slack on the issue. She wants to say she's against all this stuff, but why can she never get 5 Sunday shows when it's about an important issue like war or import standards or US companies polluting foreign countries.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

12. Yes he did, and it's the single worst thing he did. Keep in mind, this was only

a few years after Tiananmen..

"Various legislation introduced in the 102nd Congress to withdraw or severely restrict China's MFN status failed to be enacted, in two instances for failure of overriding the President's veto. In mid-1993, the President set additional human rights conditions for the renewal of China's MFN status in mid-1994, but this policy was reversed in 1994, by delinking the MFN renewal from human rights and other conditions except the freedom-of-emigration requirement, triggering new legislative measures to restrict China's MFN status, none of which was enacted. "

http://www.fas.org/man/crs/92-094.htm