The debate over renewing Most Favored Nation trading status for Communist

China was heating up again, and Peking had failed several of the human-rights tests

President Clinton had imposed the previous year. All the participants in this first-rate

quartet of shows agree that human rights, and America's national interests, must be given great weight. Where they differ is over what means will best serve the end. JM: "If I

were a totalitarian regime, the last thing I would want is a whole bunch of Americans in

my country running around dealing with my citizens on a one-to-one basis and doing

business there, because that is going to erode my power." ... RD: "Frankly, 1993 was

the worst year since the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in

terms of political arrests and political trials in the country. The economic changes that

have taken place in China--dramatic, important, and valuable as they are--have not led

to any relaxation of political control on basic rights of association, expression, assembly."