China to Open More of Government Market to Foreign Firms

For nearly three decades Senator Max Baucus (D., Mont.), soon to be tapped by the White House as the next U.S. envoy to China, has been one of Congress’s most vocal advocates for opening up trade relations with China.

To be sure, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over trade issues, has salted his China advocacy with criticism of the country’s economic and human-rights policies. But Mr. Baucus was one of the first U.S. lawmakers to push for normalized trade relations with China, was the chief backer for Beijing’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and was among those who opposed 1992 legislation that would have imposed tough conditions on renewing the country’s “most favored nation” trade status after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

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Ian Talley and William Mauldin, The Wall Street Journal via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/G4ZCUplF3jE/