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Three former presidents support permanent trade status for China
Times Herald ^ | May 9, 2000 | Associated Press Writer

Posted on 05/11/2023 3:43:49 AM PDT by daniel1212

Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush yesterday wrote an open letter backing legislation to grant permanent normal trade relations to China. Shoring up support on the right, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said he too is behind the measure, which would ease the communist nation’s long-desired entry into the World Trade Organization....

The former presidents said granting China permanent trade benefits would build upon market-opening initiatives pursued by every American president since World War II.”It will open China’s markets to us without increasing China’s access to our market,” the presidents said....

Ford and Carter will join President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, former secretaries of state, including Henry Kissinger, and former national security advisers at the White House to rally support for the legislation. ...

“In economic terms, the case is clear,” the former presidents wrote in their two-page letter released by the White House.”..

The former presidents disagree, saying a vote for PNTR will soften U.S.-China relations and make positive change within China more likely by opening doors to the information revolution and speeding up reforms that are dismantling many state controls over the economy and society.

Greenspan also said permanent trade relations would ease political liberties inside the nation of 1 billion people...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: bush; china; clinton; trade
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Great men are not [always] wise... () (for some reason Bible verse references are being removed when going to preview) In this case, it was Chinese leadership that acted wisely in its own interest,

Israel [America] hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:3-4)
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:7, 10-12)
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:14)

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. ()

1 posted on 05/11/2023 3:43:49 AM PDT by daniel1212
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2 posted on 05/11/2023 3:44:43 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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When we eventually get into a hot war with China then we will hang all of these Free Traitors™.
3 posted on 05/11/2023 3:45:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Great men? None of these people are/were great. What?


4 posted on 05/11/2023 3:49:27 AM PDT by stanne
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To: daniel1212

Ford died in 2006


5 posted on 05/11/2023 3:50:37 AM PDT by albie
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To: central_va

Why wait?


6 posted on 05/11/2023 3:51:59 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: central_va

Deep Staters.


7 posted on 05/11/2023 3:52:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: albie

[Ford died in 2006]

So what???

[Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush yesterday wrote an open letter]

President Ford wrote a letter YESTERDAY!!

See?? Always trust Associated Press! They’re awesome!!


8 posted on 05/11/2023 4:01:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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😂🤣😛😜😂🤣😂🤣😭


9 posted on 05/11/2023 4:01:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: central_va

All globalists.


10 posted on 05/11/2023 4:02:43 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: daniel1212

The only think that makes Ford better than the other two is that he pardoned Nixon.


11 posted on 05/11/2023 4:03:45 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: albie

It’s hard to tell who actually wrote this disaster LOL 😆 😆 😆


12 posted on 05/11/2023 4:04:27 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: central_va

Nothing has been learned by the globalists… nothing


13 posted on 05/11/2023 4:04:48 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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What’s in their wallets??????


14 posted on 05/11/2023 4:14:02 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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Great men? None of these people are/were great. What?

"Great" has more than one meaning, and in the Bible it can denote great in position, or in size (1 Chronicles 20:6; Joshua 14:15) or wickedness. Genesis 6:5)

15 posted on 05/11/2023 4:14:22 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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“ Ford died in 2006”

Now he votes democrat


16 posted on 05/11/2023 4:20:09 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: albie

The article is from 2000.


17 posted on 05/11/2023 4:21:36 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: stanne

Probably paid off just like the Biden crime family


18 posted on 05/11/2023 4:21:43 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: FreedomPoster

[The article is from 2000.]

Oh darn you spoiled all the fun!!

:)


19 posted on 05/11/2023 4:23:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: stanne

They are great globalists seeking the death of America.

Absent from the Pic is BHO, the grand ghazi, and his sock puppet Biden.


20 posted on 05/11/2023 4:24:15 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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