This is further evidence of the important role China can play in meeting the challenges of the 21st century and the constructive Chinese leadership that will be essential to the long-term resolutions of issues involving South Asia. This is like using the occasion of National Fire Safety Week to pay protection money to an arsonist. Indisputably, the PRC is the enabler of Pakistan's nuclear program. It is absolutely surreal to construe Beijing as a reliable partner for U.S. non-proliferation policy. There have clearly been some concrete results as a result of this engagement as well.
Trade is also an important part of our relationship with China.
Our exports have tripled over the last decade and now support over 170,000 American jobs. But just as important, trade is a force for change in China, exposing China to our ideas and our ideals, and integrating China into the global economy. This approach of granting the freedom to do business, while continuing to deny the freedom to speak, is pushing Chinese society onto dangerous ground. The government has time and again refused to establish the rule of law , allowing the tentacles of corruption to invade almost all fields of economic and governmental activity. It is no exaggeration to say that in today's China the vast majority of economic activity has an illegal component, which most government officials either ignore or directly benefit from.