he House Majority member Representative Gepheardt to oppose granting normal trade status with China as it enters the World Trade Organization. The second Policy option is to uphold the Jackson-Vanik Amendments, thus having the president review the possible annually of granting normal trade status to China. Support and leadership of this possible foreign policy option is growing, and lies in the hands of "Rep. John P. Murtha, a well-respected senior Democrat form Pennsylvania, Christopher H. Smith R-NJ, chairman of the International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee, who has even stated that under such deteriorating human rights conditions it makes to grant China permanent normal trade relations" (Nitschke 553). According to the June 4, 1999 issue of the New York Times "support has dramatically shrunk, for the renewal of most favored nation status because of human rights violations and other actions of the Chinese government that include them stealing nuclear secrets from the US government." This policy option, also is gaining support from House Whip Tom Delay (R-Tex.), who helped to pass the Taiwan security Enhancement Act in the House. "The Taiwan Security Enhancement Act indicates closer U.S. military ties with Taiwan"(Magnusson 66). When considering the laws in China, support for this policy option is gained because "both traditional Chinese law and communist law reflect the primacy of collective norms that require that contracts and property rights be subjugated to political factors"(Barfield 29). This essentially means that U.S. companies that are use to doing business in regards to U.S. law, one that allows for openness, will be under Chinese law and subject to their regulations that are not structured and contain no provisions that U.S. companies will be treated fairly. Also support lies in lobbyists in the labor unions. These labor unions led by the AFL-CIO " a federation of 68 member unions, which has been by far the mo...
