[lelio]

It will force the rest of the world to negotiate with us.

See, you're not thinking like a CEO politician. The goal here isn't to make the US wealthy by raising all our standards of living -- the goal here is to make businesses that outsource their labor to those countries and sell their products back into the US wealthy.

I also noticed that Don Evans didn't once mention human rights in respect to China. I suppose we all have our compartmentalization -- Clinton with sex and our administration with human rights.

[maui_hawaii]

I am not thinking like a CEO politician with his head up his butt.

If we truly employ those things which I posted in #8 then 'they' win, and 'we' win. Whoever 'they' and 'we' are.

Actually is almost all a "we" because 'they' are 'we'...

[maui_hawaii]

Under those circumstances even China itself wins. When they employ reforms they get rewards. We should try not to cut them off, but at the same time not play games anymore.