Nazi atrocities precluded trade. When will China’s?

BUSH: Gary, I agree with you that forced abortion is abhorrent. And I agree with you when leaders try to snuff out religion. But I think if we turn our back on China and isolate China things will get worse. Imagine if the Internet took hold in China. Imagine how freedom would spread. Our greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedom we understand in America. And that’s why it’s important for us to trade with China to encourage the growth of an entrepreneurial class. It gets that taste of freedom. It gets that breath of freedom in the marketplace.

Condition MFN on China’s human rights & technology record

End China’s MFN status until China:
• stops political & religious persecution;
• ends coercive abortion under the “one child” policy;
• stops supplying missile and nuclear technology to anti-American states around the world;
• and ends all espionage against US military and scientific communities.

Chinese policy should be based on morality, not trade

Free trade with China makes us forget our deepest values

When we invest in China, they play us for suckers

When an American company invests in China, [Beijing insists that it] share its technology. And the Chinese steal the technology, eventually booting out American companies and using the stolen technology to manufacture the goods themselves. These are not pleasant people that are honorable at the end of the day. A lot of American corporations are people played for sucker