> But at the signing ceremony in October 2000, then-Speaker Dennis Hastert said the deal was about more than money: “you know what — we open it up so that we ca

> But at the signing ceremony in October 2000, then-Speaker Dennis Hastert said the deal was about more than money: “you know what — we open it up so that we can exchange ideas and values and culture. And that's an important thing.” https://www.axios.com/hollywood-casting-china-colorism-light-skinned-df469d97-66c2-4b33-b41e-1feb29bf1f75.html https://www.axios.com/hollywood-casting-china-colorism-light... https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-official-morality https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effemina... I don't think that anyone actually believed that opening trade with china was going to "spread liberal values" there. That's what we were told instead of the truth, which is that we opened trade with china so that american companies could produce goods without having to comply with those pesky american labor regulations.