This, unlike the annual battles that we have had in the past on normal trade, actually pries open a market with 1.3 billion consumers and creates a great opportunity for U.S. workers to export goods and services to this emerging economy. And I believe that history has shown that bringing about an improvement in the economy of different nations has dramatically improved political freedom. So the interdependence of economic and political freedom are key, and I believe that we have a very serious and important responsibility here. Let me play off what David just said, because I don't think that history shows an interdependence. We've had two decades of trade with China on.
China is a brutal, suppressive, authoritarian police state.
If you challenge the government on religious grounds, political freedom grounds, on questions of worker rights, you will end up in prison, where now tens of thousands of people are in the gulag today. There is no documented literature that you can cite that says that just because you have a free market you will have a free society. Quite the contrary, often in places like Chile, with Pinochet where you had market reforms you ended up with repressive government, or Indonesia with Suharto. What we need is to keep the pressure on China on these basic issues of human rights, religious rights. Religious suppression in China today, Elizabeth, is the worst it's been since 20 years ago, it's terrible.