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l spoke at George H. W. Bush Presidential Library
6. What do you and services will grow as well. In addition,
make of the China needs food and energy that the
current trade United States produces. So in time the trade
tension between deficit will shrink as Chinese buy more
the U.S. and China of our stuff including goods, agricultural
and how will this products, and energy. Finally, I’d ask, if
year’s China- we are at “full employment” in the United
U.S. Relations States then what jobs are we protecting by
Conference imposing tariffs on Chinese imports? This
address it? trade war makes no sense.
I’m no expert but it seems to me that a As I mentioned earlier, there are real issues
trade deficit with China is a natural product that hinder our relationship with China
of a healthy trade relationship between two related to fair trade practices, intellectual
countries at different stages of maturation. property, and cyber theft. These issues need
As China’s economy continues to march to be aggressively pursued.
forward, the middle and upper middle class
will grow and the demand for U.S. goods Food trade, the exchange of food by
countries that have it and those that need
it, is central to the discussion of longer-
term sustainability of human life on earth.
There needs to be a system of trade that
institutionalizes food supplies flowing to
demand. The Bush China conference will
address the trade issue in this context. I
imagine that the conference will provide a
platform for sharing perspectives related to
current trade issues as well.
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6. What do you and services will grow as well. In addition,
make of the China needs food and energy that the
current trade United States produces. So in time the trade
tension between deficit will shrink as Chinese buy more
the U.S. and China of our stuff including goods, agricultural
and how will this products, and energy. Finally, I’d ask, if
year’s China- we are at “full employment” in the United
U.S. Relations States then what jobs are we protecting by
Conference imposing tariffs on Chinese imports? This
address it? trade war makes no sense.
I’m no expert but it seems to me that a As I mentioned earlier, there are real issues
trade deficit with China is a natural product that hinder our relationship with China
of a healthy trade relationship between two related to fair trade practices, intellectual
countries at different stages of maturation. property, and cyber theft. These issues need
As China’s economy continues to march to be aggressively pursued.
forward, the middle and upper middle class
will grow and the demand for U.S. goods Food trade, the exchange of food by
countries that have it and those that need
it, is central to the discussion of longer-
term sustainability of human life on earth.
There needs to be a system of trade that
institutionalizes food supplies flowing to
demand. The Bush China conference will
address the trade issue in this context. I
imagine that the conference will provide a
platform for sharing perspectives related to
current trade issues as well.
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