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At this spring’s China Business Conference, the president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce made an impassioned case for restraint. When it comes to America’s China policy, Suzanne Clark said she wanted the D.C. audience of politicians, executives, bureaucrats, journalists and scholars to remember one thing: “Not every economic interaction with China poses a national security risk.”
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Clark had spent the first five minutes of her address outlining the Chamber’s long list of criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party, and she made clear that the world’s largest business association supported “targeted and responsible” trade and investment restriction
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