Giving permanent normal trade relations to the government of China will destroy an important lever that we now have and we have had to influence Chinese behavior, ... We are tossing it aside.
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If the president does so, the treaty will effectively be dead, ... The decision, you see, is the president's and the president's alone.
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The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, ... By conducting five nuclear tests India made a major miscalculation not merely about the United States but about India's own capability. The Indian government has deluded itself into the absurd assumption that the possession of nuclear weapons will make India into a superpower at a time when hundreds of millions of India's people are in abject poverty.
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policy idea.
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As for Mr. Milosevic's future, I don't care one way or the other if he lives out his days in sunny Cyprus or if he will agree to step aside and make way for democracy in Serbia, the important thing is that he be removed from power, whether voluntarily or not, and now,
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