Posted on 03/18/2021 7:52:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican senators on March 18 introduced a bill that would strip the Chinese regime of its trading privileges by revoking its permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status in a bid to hold it accountable for its economic aggressions and human rights abuses.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would tie China’s eligibility to receive preferential trading treatment—known as “normal trade relations” status (NTR)—with the government’s human rights record.
Under President Bill Clinton, the United States granted China PNTR status in 2000, which paved the way for the regime’s accession to the World Trade Organization. Conventional thinking at the time was that more trade and investment in China would spur democratization within the communist-ruled country.
However, it’s now widely recognized that this consensus has not been effective. Instead, with the help of the surge in foreign investment and a raft of unfair trade practices, China’s communist regime has been strengthened economically, allowing it to solidify its authoritarian grip both inside and outside the country as it continues to escalate a range of aggressions throughout the world. American manufacturing was gutted in the process.
“For twenty years, China has held permanent most-favored-nation status, which has supercharged the loss of American manufacturing jobs. It’s time to protect American jobs and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for their forced labor camps and egregious human rights violations,” Cotton said in a statement.
If passed, the legislation would mean a reversion to the system before China was granted PNTR, where the country’s eligibility for NTR was reviewed yearly. The bill would also disqualify China from NTR status if its government engages in the certain human rights abuses, including forced labor, detaining people in concentration camps; performing forced abortions or sterilizations, forcibly taking the vital organs from prisoners and dissidents,
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Why didn’t they do this when Trump was still President?
Still, can’t hurt to try.
Get the Pro China democrats and the Rinos on record.
“The bill, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would tie China’s eligibility to receive preferential trading treatment—known as “normal trade relations” status (NTR)—with the government’s human rights record.”
A cause for silly, weak people who don’t think.
Human rights in China have nothing to do with US - Chinese relations and position.
It’s us or them. That simple. Truly simple.
Four years ago these Republicans could have had pretty much
anything they wanted. Sadly, the party leadership didn’t
want an outsider in the White House to get any credit.
So here we are again with no power at all, and all these
great ideas that always seem to be the case when we don’t.
Yawn. Isn’t it amazing all the great legislation these losers come up with when they don’t have to deliver? Color me unimpressed.
“Why didn’t they do this when Trump was still President?”
Because Trump would sign that bill. They don’t need worry now.
Or when they had both houses.😝
Can’t hurt to look like you’re trying. This is poorly planned if they really wanted to effect any kind of change. The chance of such a bill ever getting to law is next to zero, even if they held a senate majority which they don’t.
There is the question of the day. Why didn’t they do this when Trump was President?
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