"The more we can do to pull China into the new, changing world economic system the better off we'll be... We can grant them permanent normal trading relations, and in the same voice, criticize their human rights position, let them know that we are very disturbed when they issue threats toward Taiwan... [But] suppose we stiff them. Is that going to make China more likely to be a contributing and positive member of the world organizations? Or is it going to make them more isolated, truculent and more aggressive?... So I think from every standpoint--from the strategic standpoint, from the standpoint of our national interests, from the standpoint of our trading interests and our economic interests--it serves all of our purposes to grant permanent normal trading relations to China."