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.