The Impact of MFN for China on U.S.-China Economic Relations: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, May 16, 1996, Volume 4

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Page 1 - COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Washington, DC. The Subcommittees met, pursuant to notice, at 2:03 pm in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 2 - ... take effective measures. Thus the seriousness and complexity of the problem place a special burden on those who propose ways to control proliferation. They must avoid the temptation for rhetorical gestures, empty threats or righteous posturing. They must offer policies and programs which deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. The goal is to prevent proliferation, not simply to deplore it.
Page 14 - China is expected to add 100 million phone lines to the domestic network, equal to the entire number of phone lines already installed in the United Preliminary 1995 data from the World Bank.
Page 38 - As a result, there has been a dramatic increase in the standard of living of the Chinese citizens, and access to information has greatly reduced the effectiveness of State control.
Page 23 - While it is certainly the case that this administration has ranked the defense of American business and commercial business right up there at the top of our...
Page 19 - Mr. Chairman — I do have a couple of questions, if I might.
Page 4 - Mr. Chairman, and Members of the Committee, and Mr. Chairman of the Full Committee...
Page 26 - China policy has been a failure, a dramatic failure, and I don't think there is anybody in this room who believes that...
Page 4 - Chinese market for a vast majority of US goods and services. Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee...
Page 13 - I would like to focus my remarks on the extent to which...

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