Abstract

When Senator Henry Jackson, of Washington State, took aim at the USSR in 1974 he hit China more than two decades later. With the end of the Cold War, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974, passed in order to help Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, now annually disrupts the United States relationship with China to no purpose and poses serious problems for the accession of the People’s Republic to the World Trade Organization, which came into being in 1995 as the foundation of the new world trading system. What is to be done about removing this obstacle in the Congress of the United States to the integration of China into the world economy?

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