Thursday, April 9, 1998 The University Daily Kansan Section A · Page 5 U.S.-China policies spur debate By Chris Horton chorton@kansan.com Kansan staff writer Issues surrounding China's Most Favored Nation trade status were discussed last night at the first symposium sponsored by the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. Clifford Edmunds, senior China analyst for the Foreign Broadcast Information Agency in Washington, speaks as part of a panel on Most Favored Nation trade status for China at the Kansas University Ballroom. Edmunds was joined on the panel yesterday by Derry Weidner, professor of Chinese politics; Robert Sutter, senior specialist at the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service in Washinton; and Richard Bernstein, a book critic for the New York Times. Photo by Sean Haley/KANSAN About 350 people watched the debate about U.S. foreign policy regarding China, which took place at the Kansas Union Ballroom. It was preceded by a panel discussion yesterday afternoon. The debate between Richard Bernstein of the New York Times and Christopher Szymanski, a former member of the State Department's U.S. Senior Foreign Service, touched upon ways for the United States to interact with China in the future. Both speakers favored maintaining China's Most Favored Nation status but disagreed about how to handle the political dynamics between the two powers. Szymanski than China had internal and external problems but it had made progress in areas often criticized, such as human rights and economic development. Issues such as China's growing pollution and the 5.1 trade imbalance with the United States are still at problem levels, he said. Even those issues are beginning to be addressed, he said. Bernstein, who co-wrote the book "The Coming Conflict with China," said the United States should be cau- "It would be a mistake to withhold Most Favored Nation status as a means of dealing with other issues," he said. ious of dealings with China. He said it also would be a mistake on the behalf of the U.S. government not to send troops if China tried to take Taiwan by force. Shaohui Huang, Guangzhou, China, graduate student, said the debate topic and Bernstein's book were his reasons for attending. Huang said economic ties between the United States and China would prevent future confrontation. "As long as opinions of people like Bernstein don't become mainstream, relations will be good," he said. Graduate students Do you have concerns about graduate student life, employment opportunities, programming initiatives, teaching positions, and inter/intra departmental and university administrative relations? Become a member of GRADEX, the Graduate Executive Committee. 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