FYI- Remember, Bush has financed the Iraq War with China. Our current trade deficit with them is the largest by far it has ever been. If you support Bush, fine; but do not give me any of that "Pro-life President" crap.
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- An official in the Chinese government delivered news on Friday that's a concern to pro-life and human rights activists across the globe: China will not abandon it's coercive one-child population control policy in the coming years.
Zhang Weiqing, minister of the State Commission of Population and Family Planning, said the one-child policy is a long-term government program to curb China's growing population. He said the population control policy will appear in the nation's 11th Five-Year Plan, covering 2006-2010, and beyond.
The policy has been attacked by pro-life and human rights groups because of the numerous abuses that have developed under it. Women have been subjected to forced abortions and husband and wives to forced sterilizations.
Those who violate the policy have been forced to pay fines totaling months or years worth of salary, have been imprisoned, lost their jobs, and have seen family members assaulted or abducted who are hiding couples with more than one child.
According to the China Daily newspaper, Zhang spoke at a national conference on family planning and refuted reports that China plans on relaxing the policy to allow some couples to have two children.
The Shanghai-based Dongfang Morning Post previously reported that Shanghai, a large but economically developed city, would allow couples to have a second child starting in 2016. Not so, said Zhang, who explained that any change in the policy would not come from local officials in Shanghai but must be approved by the Chinese government.
Zhang said local officials have no right to arbitrarily change population control laws, according to the China Daily report.
Zhang says China's population continues to rapidly increase and maintained the coercive one-child rule must stay in place. He said China, which has the world's largest population, will see it rise to 1.37 billion in 2010 and 1.5 billion by 2033.
The Chinese government has taken up some reforms. In rural areas, couples may have two children to carry on the work of family farms and boys are traditionally preferred. Familles whose first child is a girl and decide to have just one child are rewarded.
Still, the one-child policy and its abuses have prompted thousands of Chinese to flee and seek political asylum in other countries, including the United States. The policy has also created a lack of females that has resulted in alarmingly high rates of prostitution and sex trafficking.
FYI- Remember, Bush has financed the Iraq War with China.
So if General Motors sells bonds to cover their debt and a child molestor buys a few million'$ worth, we can say that GM supports child molestors?
Other than that I agree, we shouldn't be giving China the one sided trade agreement that is currently in place, China has an atrocious human rights record. We could have used the 'most favored trading nation' status as a bargaining chip to get China to clean up its act, but Clinton gave this one away for free and threw in some nuclear warhead guidance system secrets as party favors.
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Clinton gave this one away for free and threw in some nuclear warhead guidance system secrets as party favors.
Nope. Try Reagan.
Nearly all U.S. trading partners have "Normal Trade Relations" (NTR) status (formerly known as Most Favored-Nation status). The name was changed in 1998 because the term Most Favored-Nation status was deceiving since most nations have this trade status except for a handful of rogue nations that have been refused this normal trade relationship . The products from all countries that have been given NTR are subject to the same tariffs when they enter the United States. When the United States lowers tariff rates, or eliminates or changes tariff rates, that change is applied equally to all NTR countries. Merchandise coming from NTR countries are dutiable under the rates in the General column under column 1 of the United States Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Imports from the few countries that do not have NTR face significantly higher tariff rates.
NTR is actually the norm in bilateral trade relationships between countries. Under NTR both parties agree not to extend to any third party nation any trade preferences that are more favorable than those available under the agreement concluded between them unless they simultaneously make the same provisions available to each other. Although NTR is a reciprocal agreement, it must be negotiated separately with each country. Furthermore, each individual agreement must include additional and specific provisions that take into account national security, dispute settlement procedures, trade promotion, and various other considerations.
In 1948 the United States joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). At the same time the United States agreed to extend what was then called Most Favored-Nation status (MFN) to all other countries. The status was also extended to some countries that did not join GATT. In 1951, the U.S. Congress directed President Harry Truman to revoke MFN status to the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. Yugoslavia was not part of this exclusion. During the Cold War, most Communist countries were either denied MFN or had to meet certain conditions to be granted the status.
Currently, the United States extends NTR/MFN status to all members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and most other countries. As of May 1997, the countries of Afghanistan, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, Vietnam, and Serbia/Monte***** have been excluded from NTR/MFN. Countries that wish to have NTR must fulfill two basic requirements: 1) comply with the Jackson-Vanik provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 that states that the President of the United States determines that a country neither denies or impedes the right or opportunity of its citizens to emigrate; 2) reaching a bilateral commercial agreement with the United States. NTR qualifications for Serbia/Monte***** may differ. Congressional action has denied NTR status to the reconstituted state of Yugoslavia (Serbia) in reaction to the armed conflict in the region and human rights abuses committed after the breakup of the old Yugoslavia.
There currently are a few countries which must obtain an annual presidential waiver or extension of a waiver to continue their NTR status. China is the most important country in this group which must obtain an annual waiver to maintain NTR. The waiver for China has been in effect since 1980. Every year, since 1989, legislation has been introduced in Congress to disapprove the President's waiver. The legislation has sought to tie China's NTR renewal to meeting certain human rights conditions that go beyond freedom of emigration. Through 1998, attempts to deny China NTR have failed. NTR is likely to be approved for China in 1999 as well.
Libya, Iran, and Iraq have NTR, however, U.S. laws have imposed trade embargoes with these countries.
While I differ with the Chinese on methodolgy in this case you have to admit that there is an urgent need for them to reduce their population somehow . India , Africa , Indonesia , and a few other hotspots could probably use a bit of trimming too .
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Alaska, you're stretching, aren't you? There's plenty of stuff to blame Bush about besides China's one-child policy.
Ben,
Certianly Bush is not to blame for China's one-child policy, EVEN I would not stretch it that far (though I am pretty sure he is the Anti-Christ!)
I do believe that our misguided trade policy with China, and our borrowing money to support this war in Iraq has resulted in a
weaker dollar
higher oil prices (via better Chinese economy) and
hurt our own economic resources in the manufactoring field
lowered U.S. wages
One must also consider that our huge trade imbalance also bolsters the strength of the Chinese Communist regime, which in fact a HUGE violator of human rights, and a country that aborts more fetuses that America does by far.
My point was simply to emphasis that there certianly lies a large hypocricy by stating that you cherish the santicity of life, yet continue to support a country (to the detriment of your own) that violates that philophsical argument on a scale that is orders of magnitude beyond what occurs in your own country.
Sorry, I did not realize that was such a quantum leap.
What is different now with our trade agreement than when Clinton was in office, nothing. Seems when Clinton was campaigning against the senior Bush he was lambasting Bush for it back then. But did it ever change under Clinton no. But then why would it when his coffers were being filled with Chinese money. You dont bite the hand that is feeding you.
What is different now with our trade agreement than when Clinton was in office, nothing. Seems when Clinton was campaigning against the senior Bush he was lambasting Bush for it back then. But did it ever change under Clinton no. But then why would it when his coffers were being filled with Chinese money. You dont bite the hand that is feeding you.
Bill Clinton has been out of office for six years. Get over it. This is Bush's mess, and for the record, the huge trade deficits began under Daddy Bush, not Clinton. Ever since Bush Sr., we have had a trade deficit with China of about 4x's. Now under Bush Jr., we are up to 6x's.
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