MFN in fact means that a country gets trade treatment that's as good as anybody else's, not that it gets more favorable treatment than any other country. I accept that, and I oppose MFN on exactly those grounds.
China gets the same trade treatment that virtually everybody else gets.
There can be no such thing as normal trade with the world's largest country, a communist system engaging in proliferation of conventional, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. A country of which our State Department can say, there was not a single dissident active in 1996. A country which is violating commitments it made in an international agreement to preserve Hong Kong's institutions and way of life virtually intact. A country whose economy is built on prison labor and People's Liberation Army joint ventures with U.S. companies. A country which fires missiles across the Taiwan strait in an attempt to intimidate the people of Taiwan from conducting democratic elections.