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Line 455: − − ===China WTO admission=== − :{{See also|China under Deng and successors}} − In 1999, Bill Clinton said in a press conference with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji that bringing China into the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) “on fair commercial terms” would “go far toward leveling the playing field for [U.S.] companies and [U.S.] workers in China’s markets” and “commit China to play by the rules of the international trading system.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/two-decades-after-joining-china-remains-woefully-short-of-meeting-wto-pledges-report_3938153.html</ref>
→1996 Presidential election
Agents of China sought to give contributions to the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) before the [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996 presidential campaign]] in violation of US law barring non-American citizens from donating money to American politicians and political parties.<ref>Woodward, Bob and Duffy, Brian, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/china1.htm "Chinese Embassy Role In Contributions Probed"], ''Washington Post'', February 13, 1997.</ref> This as well as a similar scandal dating back to the 1992 campaign was also suspected to have directly resulted in then-assistant Attorney General [[Jamie Gorelick]] creating a 1995 classified memo that forced a wall preventing communication between intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, which had the consequence of indirectly setting up the events of the [[September 11 attacks]] later on.<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Gorelick-s-Memo-Impeded-Probe/2004/04/26/id/679464/</ref>
Agents of China sought to give contributions to the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) before the [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996 presidential campaign]] in violation of US law barring non-American citizens from donating money to American politicians and political parties.<ref>Woodward, Bob and Duffy, Brian, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/china1.htm "Chinese Embassy Role In Contributions Probed"], ''Washington Post'', February 13, 1997.</ref> This as well as a similar scandal dating back to the 1992 campaign was also suspected to have directly resulted in then-assistant Attorney General [[Jamie Gorelick]] creating a 1995 classified memo that forced a wall preventing communication between intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, which had the consequence of indirectly setting up the events of the [[September 11 attacks]] later on.<ref>https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Gorelick-s-Memo-Impeded-Probe/2004/04/26/id/679464/</ref>
==1997-2001, Second Term U.S. Presidency==
==1997-2001, Second Term U.S. Presidency==