CHINA CROSS TALK The American Debate over China Policy since Normalization A READER Edited by Scott Kennedy R O W M A N & L I T T L E F I E L D P U B L I S H E R S, I N C. Lanham Boulder New York Oxford
Contents FOREWORD BY LEE H. HAMILTON xiii INTRODUCTION xvii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxxiii PART I: TOWARD FULL NORMALIZATION (1978-1983) 1. Switching Ties: Recognizing Reality? 3 Diplomatic Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China, Address to the Nation Jimmy Carter Our Deal with Peking All Cost, No Benefit - Chinese Realities Charles W. Yost 2. Economic Normalization: Benefits and Dangers 13 Agreement on Trade Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China Senate testimony by Henry M. Jackson, Adlai f. Stevenson III, Warren Christopher, Cord Hansen-Sturm, Amy Young-Anawaty, and F. A. Meister 3. Playing the China Card? 25 The New Era in East Asia House testimony by John H. Holdridge Misreading China David M. Lampion 4. Managing Taiwan 33 Statement on Relations with China and Taiwan United States-China Joint Communique on United States Arms Sales to Taiwan
viii CONTENTS U.S. Policy toward China and Taiwan Senate testimony by Claiborne Pell, John Glenn, 5. /. Hayakawa, and John H. Holdridge 5. Human Rights Strategies 43 Reconciling Human Rights and U.S. Security Interests in Asia House testimony by Robert Barnett, Andrew 1. Nathan, and Kenneth Lieberthal PART II: THE GOLDEN YEARS (1984-1988) 6. A Growing Relationship 53 United States-China Relations House testimony by A. Doak Barnett, Donald Zagoria, and Gerald Solomon Toast at a Welcoming Banquet Hosted by Premier Zhao Ziyang of China in Beijing The United States and China in the New Balance of Power Thomas W. Robinson The China Connection A. James Gregor 7. The Benefits and Dangers of Nuclear Cooperation 75 Proposed Nuclear Cooperation Agreement with the People's Republic of China Carrying Friendship Too Far blic PART III: IN THE WAKE OF TIANANMEN (1989-1992) 8. The Initial Response to June 4 87 The President's News Conference George Bush Human Rights and Political Developments in China House testimony by Michel Oksenberg James D. Seymour The Caricature of Deng as a Tyrant Is Unfair Henry Kissinger Kissinger's Kowtow Stephen J. Solan 9. The Missions 109 Misguided Mission Winston Lord United States Policy toward China House testimony by Lawrence S. Eagleburger
CONTENTS ix 10. MFN: Creating Linkage 117 Most-Fovored-Nation Status for the People's Republic of China House testimony by Hancy Pelosi and Richard Solomon Extending Most-Favored-Nation Status for China Senate testimony by Max Baucus, Morton Bohr, Holly J. Burkhalter, and Roger G. Sullivan PART IV: TRYING A NEW CHINA STRATEGY (1993-1995) 11. MFN: To De-link or Not De-Link? 135 Statement on Most-Favored-Nation Trade Status for China William J. Clinton Chinese Checkers Editors of The Nation How to Boost China's Free Market and Punish the State Fang Uzhi and Zhao Haiching The President's News Conference William J.Clinton MFN for Red China: A Tragic Mistake 12. Chinas Bid for the 2000 Olympics 149 Don't Give Olympics to China Charles Graybow Beijing Deserves the 2000 Olympics Jonathan Kolaich 13. Dealing with a Stronger China 155 A Strong China: Is the United States Ready? Thomas L McNaugher The Growth and Role of the Chinese Military Senate testimony by Arthur Waldron Why We Must Contain China Charles Krauthammer PART V: MOUNTING WORRIES OVER CHINA (1996-2000) 14. Competing (and Cooperating) Strategies 171 Remarks to the Asia Society and the United States-China Education Foundation Board William J.Clinton The Clinton-Jiang Summits: An American Perspective Harry Harding Dealing with a Resurgent China Ted Galen Carpenter
CONTENTS Speak Plainly to the Paper Tiger Gerald Segal Challenges Facing the Next U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China The China Threat BillGertz 15. Assessing Chinas Military 201 China's Hollow Military Bates Gill and Michael O'Hanlon China's Military: A Second Opinion James Ulley and Carl Ford 16. Taiwan: Between Reassurance and Deterrence 219 U.S.-Toiwan Relations House testimony by Susan L Shirk The Administration's Position on Taiwan Senate floor remarks by Frank Murkowski Why Taiwan's Security Needs to Be Enhanced The Taiwan Security Reduction Act David M. Lampion 17. Weapons In, Weapons Out 231 Chinese Takeout Henry Sokolski The Cox Report and the Threat from China Joseph Cirimione United States Policy Regarding the Export of Satellites to China House testimony by Gary Milhollin Don't Push China on Proliferation Phillip C. Sounders and Evan S. Medeiros 18. Permanent MFN: Trade and Human Rights 245 Giving the People's Republic of China Permanent MFN: Implications for U.S. Policy Senate testimony by Greg Mastel Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China Nicholas R. Lardy Complete and Utter Nonsense Thomas L Friedman Statement against Granting China Permanent Most-Favored-Nation Status House door remarks by David Bonior 19. China Hands or Chinas Hands? 261 Chinatown JohnB.Judis Why Our China Policy? William F.Buckley Jr.
CONTENTS xi PART VI: CHINA: A STRATEGIC COMPETITOR? (2001) 20. Redefining the Relationship, Again 273 A Distinctly American Internationalism Remarks at Business Event Colin L Powell Looking to a Non-Ally in China Richard Fisher The Mixed Messages of the Bush-Jiang Meeting Susan L Shirk 21. The Plane Collision 283 U.S. Letter to Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan Joseph W. Prueher Chinese Twins William Saletan U.S. Is Sorry For Giving China MFN, Letter to the editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch 22. Chinas Bid for the 2008 Olympics 289 Do Not Award China the 2008 Olympics Editors of the Detroit News Yes, Award Olympic Games to a Changing China David Shambaugh PART VII: CHINESE REACTIONS TO THE AMERICAN DEBATE 23. Debating China Policy in the United States: A Chinese Perspective 295 WuXinbo 2A. The American Debate over China Policy: A Chinese View 301 Zhu Feng FURTHER READING 309 INDEX 315 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 327