st powerful voice against the China trade bill, in helping sway scores of Democrats, including Richard Gephardt, the House Democratic leader, to oppose granting permanent normal trade relations to China and has complicated easy passage of the trade bill in the house. The AFL-CIO has stated that its concerns lie not in protective measures in providing that American jobs are not lose, in a stance that would protect workers and their rights. The president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney has said "we have really learned from the past that we have to have core labor standards in our trade agreements if they are going to benefit workers in the United States as well as workers in the countries that are our trading partners"(Greenhouse 1). Negative aspects include the loss of allowing the United States to get a "foot in the door of China. That is that livestock producers in particular now have little access to China; sales there would broaden the horizons for cattle, hog, and poultry, largely because the Chinese eat different parts of those animals than most Americans do" (Nitschke 447). Also negative aspects and argumentation for this policy are that "in its drive to achieve membership in the World Trade Organization, China has made substantial astounding-market-access concessions, and that foreign investors including those from the United States will reap the benefits from Chinese admission into the World Trade Organization"(Barfield 29). Also negative impacts surround that fact that " a "no" vote on permanent normal trade relations should be sobered by the realization that their vote will be interpreted in China, as a signal that we share this preference. A "no" vote will strengthen the hand of the hard-liners who are undermining the United States' ability to work with China on such areas of mutual interest as stability on the Korean peninsula and nuclear proliferation"(Tyson 34). The last possible foreign policy option would be to grant norm...
