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David Cay Johnston: what I meant is sort of a precipitating event that caused this tit-for-tat thing, and the Chinese are clearly greatly to…

On the recordMarch 28, 1996
what I meant is sort of a precipitating event that caused this tit-for-tat thing, and the Chinese are clearly greatly to be criticized for all of those things that my colleague said, but I really meant the precipitating events. You can point to that as the events that started it all, and that has led from that point on.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Discussing the causes of tensions in U.S.-China relations.

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