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WTO membership will strengthen the forces of reform inside China and thereby improve the odds that China will continue and even accelerate its gradual progress toward joining the rules-based community of nations.

Context

Letter to Congressional Leaders on Permanent Normal Trade Relations With China

01/23/2000

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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