[Willie Green]

Fundamentally, we believe that the U.S. government needs to devote more resources and put in place new programs to build wider expertise about China and to protect our industrial base from eroding as a result of our economic relations with China.

Amen!

But is anybody in Congress or in the Bush Administration listening?

[maui_hawaii]

With our new Senate, I think we will see some changes.

The Foreign Relations Committee web page is the friggin Joe Biden show. These guys were absolutely positively protecting their own special interests.

Jiveass Joe was even going to have hearings about China, all by his lonesome. He is in the closet, but is totally meandering around the tough issues in regards to China. He has no clue about East Asian affairs. At the same time, him and Rockefeller are the poster boys for saying that all of our security concerns with China are nothing compared to what they say our corporations will lose if we don't accomodate China.

Anything that GE doesn't like, Joe doesn't like either.

[maui_hawaii]

The Senate Foreign Relations commitee in the 107th was stacked. You should see the list of people that were on there...

[maui_hawaii]

Then again, who knows...(Senator) Lugar manages his family's 604-acre Marion County corn, soybean and tree farm.

I am not holding my breath.

By the way, soybeans are about the ONLY thing we export to China.

[Joe Hadenuf]

No.