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To: epicure who wrote (75358)	3/1/2000 1:03:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There is certainly a large and growing rift between the more business-and-economy oriented sectors of the Chinese leadership and the military and the hardline communist factions that remain suspicious of the growing commercial activity with the west and the increasing liberalization of street-level economic life (which is, BTW, very real). It struck me - as speculation, purely - that the more hardline factions may be trying to derail the WTO deal, which is certainly a major threat to their power base. I think that the passage of the WTO deal is critical - the more engaged the Chinese are; the more prominent Chinese are making money from overseas trade, the less incentive China has to rock the boat. Keeping China out of the WTO will only shift more power to the hardliners; it will do nothing at all to help the Chinese dissidents, and it will make military action against Taiwan much more likely.