I am no fan of the Bushies, but it was Clinton that brought China into the WTO. I would also wager he got a substantial bribe in doing so.
I think Bush was president. It was his 1st year as president when China became part of the WTO.
China money elected Clinton.
Many of us wanted Clinton brought down because of his corrupt relationship with China and the tradeoff for money versus software moved from defense to commerce so China could use what Clinton traded to them which got China ability to program missiles to be aimed at all of our large cities.
Kind of a disjointed BlOCK of words squeezed from the deep excesses of my memory.
The democrats very cleverly switched from China/Clinton espionage to the Monica sex scandal.
Thus burying the more important treason crime with titillating sex crimes.
Speaking of burying, Ron Brown and Vince Foster were also buried from bad cases of Arkancide.
Along with many others within 2 degrees of Bill Clinton.
Some old timers here will remember this.
Biden has gotten us closer to China but it started with Clinton.
Look where we are now...
“I am no fan of the Bushies, but it was Clinton that brought China into the WTO. I would also wager he got a substantial bribe in doing so.”
The George Bush regime laid the groundwork for NAFTA and Chinese being admitted to the WTO. Clinton completed it. No wonder that years later Bushy and Bill became so palsy-walsy. The photos are all over, of them having a love fest.
ACT CHECK: DID BUSH SUPPORT CHINA JOINING THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION?
7:29 PM 09/11/2017 David Sivak | Fact Check Editor
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon claimed in an interview Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that former President George W. Bush let China join the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Verdict: True
The Bush administration backed China’s membership in the WTO.
Fact Check:
In the interview, Bannon framed American support for China joining the WTO as a mistake that contributed to China’s rise as an economic competitor.
“The elites in this country have got us in a situation,” lamented Bannon. “The geniuses in the Bush administration that let China in the WTO, and genius in the Bush administration told us, ‘Hey, they’re gonna be a liberal democracy. They’re going to be free-market capitalism.’ Okay? The same geniuses that got us into Iraq, that’s the geniuses of the Bush administration.”
China gained admission to the WTO in 2001, a move that more fully integrated the country into the world economy. To become a member, China committed to reducing agricultural and industrial tariffs and abide by rules-based trade with other WTO members.
The Bush administration supported membership for China, arguing it would push the country towards liberal reforms and benefit the U.S. economy. “For businesses and workers and farmers it will mean lower trade barriers and important opportunities for U.S. exports and more work and jobs for United States workers,” Bush said in a speech around that time. ”For the people of China it holds out the hope of more open contact with the world of freedom.”
China began enacting economic reforms in 1979 that, among other things, opened the agriculture sector up to free market principles and slowly eliminated price controls in parts of the economy. Although the country has moved towards free