Clinton Answers

1. Clinton had little background on China and had lobbied in Taiwan before becoming president.
2. She said it could cause US companies to lose out to foreign competition in the toy, shoe, and other industries because of increased duties.
3. Clinton offered a backing off of Taiwan deals for an improvement in human rights.
4. Congress wanted human rights, arms proliferation, and trade conditions on MFN status renewal, but dropped it when Clinton said he would take care of it with an executive order. This consisted of just better human rights conditions for renewal of MFN status. China wanted more from the MFN, but did not speak up about that.
5. US companies entered China very quickly and invested 6700 new contracts in China of the 83,437 total signed. Japan had beaten the US to China and US companies were then trying to catch up.
6. Military sanctions are imposed when M11 missile sales to Pakistan were confirmed, which was opposed by some higher technology companies.
7. North Korea was withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so Clinton is less confrontational with China.
8. The Clinton administration remained neutral, but gave the IOC information on human rights violations in China.
9. The new policy is opening up talks on many topics and talk about other topics they had not discussed before like the military.
10. This would make the US weaker because they are weaken their stances in China.

New Market in China

President Carter opening up trade with China and giving them Most Favored Nation status was good for both the US and China. Trading with the US allowed new technology to flow into China that China wouldn't have been able to develop on their own. It also allowed China to eventually compete for business in US markets when their technology and industry picked up. The United States opened up a market of over a billion people that it could trade with. This also helped them fight communism by improving capitalism worldwide with increased trade and more markets to buy and sell to.

US China Negotiations

The US was in a difficult position negotiating with China because of the bigger stakes of their negotiating. China had not been open to the west and Mao was close to death, so they were able to be bold in negotiations, while the US feared an unpopular settlement or backlash from a failed negotiation. This helped China in the beginning to seemingly gain Taiwan, but the US overall won the negotiations by being vague enough to successfully open relations without fully conceding anything meaningful. The obscure wording used helped the US push off any problems they ran into in negotiations to the future after relations had improved.