Cotton Announces Bill to Revoke China’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status

Cotton Announces Bill to Revoke China’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ StatusSen­a­tor Tom Cot­ton (R., Ark.) announced Mon­day that he is intro­duc­ing leg­is­la­tion to repeal per­ma­nent most favored nation trade sta­tus, a des­ig­na­tion that guar­an­tees equal trad­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty among a nation’s trade partners.In an appear­ance on Fox & Friends, Cot­ton crit­i­cized China’s sta­tus as a most favored nation, and said he would intro­duce leg­is­la­tion this week that would require the pres­i­dent and con­gress to reassess the sta­tus each year.Under Cotton’s new leg­is­la­tion if Chi­na were to “shoot mis­siles at our ships in the West­ern Pacif­ic” or crack down on Hong Kong as it has done this year, “then we would be able to say each year we are not going to renew most favored nation sta­tus for Chi­na,” he said. > Chi­na should be stripped of its per­ma­nent most-favored-nation sta­tus.> > Joe Biden vot­ed to give the com­mu­nist coun­try the spe­cial trade sta­tus 20 years ago, super­charg­ing the loss of Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs.> > I’m intro­duc­ing leg­is­la­tion to end it. pic.twitter.com/LWPXmcORlf> > — Tom Cot­ton (@SenTomCotton) Sep­tem­ber 14, 2020The sen­a­tor also blast­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Joe Biden for his decades of sup­port of increased trade oppor­tu­ni­ties with the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Party.“This week is the twen­ti­eth anniver­sary of Joe Biden vot­ing to give per­ma­nent most favored nation sta­tus to Chi­na,” he said. “Just think about that — most favored nation sta­tus to a com­mu­nist country.”He said the sta­tus had “super­charged the loss of Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs” and crit­i­cized the for­mer vice pres­i­dent for defend­ing it last week dur­ing an inter­view with CNN’s Jake Tapper.Tapper asked Biden, “A lot of peo­ple think that allow­ing Chi­na into the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion, which you sup­port­ed, extend­ing most favored nation sta­tus to Chi­na, which you sup­port­ed, that those steps allowed Chi­na to take advan­tage of the Unit­ed States by using our own open trade deals against us. Do you think, in ret­ro­spect, you were naive about China?”Biden defend­ed the stance say­ing, “No, here is the thing. In the con­text of that, we want Chi­na to grow. We don’t want a war with China.”Cotton has shown repeat­ed dis­ap­proval of Biden’s stance on Chi­na and in March pub­lished an arti­cle at Nation­al Review titled “Joe Biden Is China’s Choice for Pres­i­dent,” in which he crit­i­cized Biden’s sup­port for China’s most favored nation sta­tus. “In the crit­i­cal fight over whether to grant most-favored-nation trade sta­tus and World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion mem­ber­ship to Chi­na in the 1990s — a fight in which, again, many of his party’s lead­ers in Con­gress were on the right side — Biden care­ful­ly shep­herd­ed Chi­na through the process from his pow­er­ful perch as the senior Demo­c­rat on the Sen­ate For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee,” the long­time Chi­na hawk wrote. In 2000, Biden vot­ed to approve Per­ma­nent Nor­mal Trade Rela­tions with the coun­try, which cre­at­ed a path for Chi­na to become a mem­ber of the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion one year later.“Wherever a brake might have been applied — by plac­ing human-rights or labor con­di­tions on most-favored-nation sta­tus, for exam­ple — Biden vot­ed the mea­sures down and lob­bied oth­er sen­a­tors for Bei­jing,” Cot­ton con­tin­ued. “Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Chi­na and Biden got their way, and Amer­i­can work­ers are still suf­fer­ing from it.”


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