Normal trade relations with China will help us strengthen those ties and continue our efforts to make China an increasingly open and productive partner for America.

I hereby certify that the People's Republic of China has provided clear and unequivocal assurances to the United States that it is not assisting and will not assist any nonnuclear-weapon state, either directly or indirectly, in acquiring nuclear explosive devices

Human rights are still at risk from Burma to Nigeria, from Belarus to China.

I don't wish to contain China.

I think it would be wrong on its own merits, but I think it might wind up being less useful to China.

China will undertake immediate steps to crack down on piracy, enforce intellectual property rights.

The President's decision to recommend MFN status for another year, will allow the Administration to build on the human rights progress already achieved and advance other vital U.S. interests with China.

These actions would isolate China, set back achievement of U.S. interests, and undermine U.S. goals, including those in the human rights area.

I am directing the United States Trade Representative to develop a plan to monitor imports of honey from China.

I think our trade relationships alone indicate that the United States has not attempted to isolate China but instead has attempted to assist its movement into the global economy.

Our policy is to try to engage China but to be very firm with the human rights issues.

I determine that it is in the national interest for the Export-Import Bank of the United States to extend a loan in the amount of $78,232,982 to the People's Republic of China.

MFN withdrawal would hurt all Chinese.

I believe that China, as its leaders state, will return to the policy of reform pursued before June 3.

The two Governments reaffirm their commitments under the Agreement on Trade Relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China as the basis of their trade and economic relations.

It is important that the Chinese people--and that is one-fourth of all the people in this world--not be enemies of the United States.

The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United States of America have agreed that President Nixon's visit to China shall begin on February 21, 1972.

The pursuit of a national nuclear capability not only makes international arms control, including a nuclear test ban and a nonproliferation treaty, vastly more difficult; it also invites danger to China itself.