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'Failure to grant Beijing PNTR may hurt'

Clinton sends China trade deal to split Congress
WASHINGTON. Mar 9 President Bill Clinton sent a bill aiming to expand trade with China to a US Congress split on the issue and ready for a bruising fight reminiscent of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) battle. reports AFP.
Clinton warned Wednesday that failure to quickly grant Beijing permanent normal trade relations (NTR) would "cost America Jobs as our competitors in Europe. Asia and elsewhere capture Chinese markets that we otherwise would have served.
Moreover, "voting against permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) won't free a single prisoner (in China) or create a single Job in America or reassure a single American ally in Asia." he said.
PNTR would replace an often acrimonious annual review in which Congress sharply criticizes Beijing on human rights and security matters before cutting tariffs on Chinese goods to the same low level enjoyed by all but a few US trade partners.
Washington and Beijing last November reached an accord under which China agreed to sweeping tariff cuts and other measures to make its huge do-
mestic market more accessible to US goods.
In return, the United States agreed to back China's accession to the World Trade jOrgani-satlon (WTO). Clinton hopes lawmakers will grant Beijing permanent NTR by June in a move seen as a critical step towards China's eventual entry into the global trade body.
But ’Congress will not be voting on whether China will join the WTO." said Clinton. "Congress can only decide whether the United States will share in the economic benefits of China Joining the WTO."
Many foes of permanent NTR for China worry that Washington would be giving up leverage to pressure China on such issues.
WTO membership "will not create a free society in China overnight or guarantee that China will play by global rules." Clinton acknowledged.
"But over ilme. I believe it will move China faster and further in the right direction and. certainly, will do that more than rejection would," he said in a speech at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies here.
Clinton said that improvement In human rights would "only come through a combination of Internal pressure and ex-
ternal validation of China's human rights struggle."
He referred to continued US government pressure on these issues. "We sanctioned China under the International Religious Freedom Act last year. We're again sponsoring a resolution in the UN Human Rights Commission condemning China's human rights record this year."
And for those in the House concerned by China's recent saber-rattling on Taiwan, he stated. "We will continue to reject the use of force as a means to resolve the Taiwan question, making absolutely clear that the issues between Beijing and Taiwan must be resolved peacefully and with the assent of the people of Taiwan.
John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott, said lawmakers would proceed cautiously.
Permanent NTR faces vigorous opposition from US organised labour, a crucial Democratic constituency. Labour unions see low-wage Chinese workers as a threat to US jobs and have demanded labour and environment side agreements as the price of their support, In a manner reminiscent of the fight over NAFTA.