John Kerry on China Issues

Issues 2001 ^

[Gillmeister]

John Kerry on China Click here for 2 full quotes OR click here for background on China. Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. (Sep 2000) Voted YES on killing a bill for trade sanctions if China sells weapons. (Sep 2000)

[Gillmeister]

Can someone ask this dolt how he can vote to NOT sanction China if found that they sell weapons? Is there any legitimate News Reporter will the gonads to ask him this?

[maui_hawaii]

I am not about them selling weapons, believe me. I am definately not a pro CCP China hand either, but sanctions don't work that well in stopping what we want stopped.

Sanctions don't take into account why China proliferates...

Sanctions won't stop them because there is a much deeper reason for their actions.

Sanctions only work sometimes.

China has to be dealt with on a two front scale. 1. a much broader scale, IE a composite approach to Asia... and 2. a specific engagement on certain issues that we have concerns over.

Just issuing sanctions on them, without being in a greater context, doesnt do a whole lot...

PNTR only continued to give what was already being given to China since the early 1980s. PNTR did not extend any new favors to China. All it did was told the Senate that they did not have to debate every year on China trade, which was approved every year since I think 1981 or 82...

We are going to have to dig a lot deeper than this..

[latourette]

The only way to stop China is to repeal the laws of capitalism. The only reason China is getting stronger these days is because of the forces of economic globalization. The US market is saturated so US companies have to expand business abroad to please the US shareholders. Of the developing nations, Third World democracies like Russia, Indonesia, India, Argentina, Brazil, etc. just are too messy and unstable politically and economically. That leaves China. Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that the entire process of "economic globalization" largely centers on just one country these days, China. It's just a practical matter that authoritarian China presents a more attractive and stable political and economic environment than Argentina or Brazil. Lately, there's talk that democratic Brazil and Mexico might be the next Argentina-type economic and political messes.