It is clear that our relationship with China is one that is extraordinarily important, and as everybody here acknowledges, extraordinarily complex. There is no doubt we have a lot of contentious issues that surround our relationships. We just heard about some of them: Nuclear proliferation, intellectual property, political and economic freedom for the Chinese people. Mr. Speaker, no one minimizes the difficulties of those issues, but I believe today we can take a great step, perhaps the first real step in years, toward resolving some of these problems.
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Discussing the complexities and importance of U.S.-China relations.
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