Five years later, when we seized the initiative and applied for membership, Washington officials no longer treated his question as a joke. The Bush administration called a cabinet meeting and concluded that the United States supports the application in principle.
五年後的今天，當我們主動出擊，向 GATT 總部遞出申請案時，華府官員不再當作笑話，布希政府馬上召開跨越十個部門的幕僚會議，並作出美國原則支持的結論。