China's Foreign Policy Since the initial warming of US-China relations in the early 1970s, policymakers have had difficulty balancing the conflicting political concerns of the United States in the People's Republic Chinese. In the strange world of diplomacy between the two, nothing is predictable. From Nixon to Clinton, presidents have had to balance security and human rights concerns with corporate desires to expand economic relations between the two countries. Nixon established ties with Mao Zedong's brutal regime in 1972. And today the Clinton administration is trying to influence China's course through close economic and diplomatic relations. In 1989 the Tiananmen Square massacre drew public attention to the inconsistent nature of US-China policy. There has been a public outcry for a stronger stance against human rights violations. Weapons exported to China were banned. Cooperation in the nuclear energy sector ceased, and assistance programs of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade Development Agency were suspended. There are three main problems with current US policy...