Some liberals claim that Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter,
has always put human rights above engagement with Communist
countries and never engaged in transfers of technology. Don't
believe them! As a candidate in 1976, Jimmy Carter criticized
Gerald Ford for continuing Nixon's policy of Realpolitik with
China at the expense of human rights. But once ensconced in the
White House, Carter downgraded our relations with Taiwan and
restored formal diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of
China in 1978. It was also Carter who granted MFN trade status
to China for the first time and invited Deng Xiaoping to visit
the United States. Trade above human rights. In 1979, President
Carter and Premier Deng Xiaoping signed the U.S.-China Agreement
on Cooperation in Science and Technology (S&T Agreement). Since
this agreement was executed, researchers in both countries have
officially collaborated in work involving fisheries, earth and
atmospheric sciences, physics, satellites, communications,
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