How To Win ENEMIES
and Influence NO ONE
The Thompson-Torricelli Sanctions
Bill
Part of a Continuing Series from the Business Coalition for
U.S.-China Trade |
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The Thompson-Torricelli
unilateral sanctions bill would not influence Chinese behavior. Instead,
it would antagonize U.S. allies, isolate the U.S. from other
countries dealing with China, and fail to influence China in any
positive way.
Some examples of this bill's extreme and
ill-conceived elements:
- Sanctions could be triggered by sales of goods that do not appear
on any multilateral export control list. And unilateral sanctions
could even be triggered by domestic transfers within China of items not
controlled by any international agreement.
- The bill's standard for mandatory unilateral sanctions is so loose
that sanctions could be triggered by leaks to a newspaper of unconfirmed
reports from third parties. The "credible evidence" standard in the past
has been defined by Congress to mean "information that induces a firm
suspicion". Important national security decisions should be based on
more than "suspicions".
- The measures proposed in the bill would represent the largest
expansion of U.S. unilateral sanctions since the end of the Cold
War. Such unilateral measures, which only punish Americans, utterly
failed to deter India or Pakistan from nuclear tests and had to be
scaled back by the Brownback amendment.
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THOMPSON-TORRICELLI PUNISHES AMERICA, NOT
CHINA.
OPPOSE S. 2645 |
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