to add amendments and/or concessions to solidify US interests in China after or when normal trade relations are made official foreign policy."(Magnussion and Walczak 66). Corporate America is behind the US foreign policy that would grant normal trade status to China, because of the possible economic benefits that will likely befall the companies if the legislation is passed. Corporations are already lobbying employees to urge them to have their congressmen vote for the instillation of normal trade relations, which can be seen in the instance of "The business roundtable, an organization of corporate executives, who purchased 1.5 million worth of air time in 22 states between March 5-12. The ads were of steel doors closing on a Chinese businessman, an effort to show the dire consequences of rejecting a permanent trade relationship with China. This group's ad was part of a 6 million effort to push for permanent normal trade relations"(Nitschke and Pomper 552). Also President Clinton has received support from 13 Nobel Prize-winning economists. One such economist Professor Robert, a Nobel laureate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said at the white House "China will compete for some low-wage jobs with Americans, and their market will provide jobs for high-wage, more skilled people," and concluded that that was a bargain for the United States and our economy. Positive aspects as just mentioned include economic benefits to farmers and corporations that send their products to China, and that the entrance into the World Trade Organization would mean a more open Chinese society. President Clinton alluded to this fact in a speech that he gave at Johns Hopkins University, when he said, "China is not simply agreeing to import more of our products. It is agreeing to import one of democracy's most cherished values, economic freedom"(Nitschke and Pomper 552). Positive economic aspects are that "China is already the eighth largest marke...
