Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Edward Steinfeld is one of our country's keenest scholars on what goes on in China. Instead of reform serving to sustain the core, the core itself would be destroyed to save reform, along with the growth, prosperity, and stability reform has brought to China. In the new view, instead of using market forces to save state socialism, state socialism itself would have to be sacrificed to preserve the market economy. I agree with Professor Steinfeld. China's membership in the World Trade Organization will require it to reform a very large portion of its economy, and not only to comply with WTO rules, but to be able to compete internationally.
China constitutes one-fifth of the world's population.
We can be on the right side of history. We ought to be on the right side of history. I urge a vote for this motion to proceed and a vote of yes on final passage. I yield the floor. Return to The United States and China .