Katie Porter: “We began meeting earlier this year, convinced that the annual debate on MFN had ceased to provide any positive results…”

“We began meeting earlier this year, convinced that the annual debate on MFN had ceased to provide any positive results in terms of China policy and desiring to fashion a package of tools that were better equipped to address specific problems that we saw in U.S. policy toward China and better geared toward promoting the values that we hoped to see take root in that country. These ideas have been mostly incorporated in this legislation and I think will go a long way toward getting a true engagement with China, not just a debate within the Congress, but a true engagement that has the potential of truly changing Chinese society. It represents a great step forward in changing the nature of congressional discussion of U.S.-China policy. It makes efforts that mark a new and more mature debate on the important policy and the impact of our relations with China.”