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Article: Outsourcing, piracy and quotas pose foreign policy challenges.(Appointment With China)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 25, 2004
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CHINA'S emergence as an economic power has brought out a whole range of interest groups in Washington looking to shape U.S. policy--and then capitalize on the outcome.
The list of power players includes members of Congress and the Bush administration, along with industry groups, labor unions and familiar foreign policy names like Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state.
The hottest China-related issue in the presidential campaign has been the outsourcing of jobs. By one estimate, nearly 100,000 U.S. jobs have been lost to China this year, more than double the number in 2001.
Other issues range from currency manipulation to piracy and ...