China's Foreign Policy Since the initial warming of U.S.-China relations in the early 1970s, policymakers have struggled to balance conflicting U.S. policy concerns in the People's Republic of China. 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 businesses' desire 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 focused public attention on the incoherence of American and Chinese policies. Public opinion demanded a tougher stance against human rights violations. Weapons exported to China were banned. Cooperation in the field of nuclear energy ended and assistance programs from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade Development Agency were suspended. There are three major problems with current U.S. trade development policy....