since 2004 there have been veral cases filed against china. i urge them to consider carefully whether or not they should bring additional cases to ensure that china adheres to the commitments. with china's existing obgations notufficient they must seek to strengthen them. china's long promise for the government per current agreement. the united states must seek a time line. we should seek leverage to ensure that china keeps to that time line. the united states must take strong and the lateral action to addressur trade imbalance, even as we pursue multilateral action. must seek a suspension of china's indigenous insion policy and must dismantle chinese barriers to u.s. and other exports. and congress must apply our anti duty lawto subsidize chinese imports. china opened the door to appreciating this currency. congress must carefully consider whether china's currency practices onstitute an improper subsidy. taking thee steps will help to achieve results, measurable results. taking these steps will help the united states-china relationship to kee

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less there was any doubt that this message was getting through, i vvidly remembe veral months into theinistration, on the front page of the "n york times there were two articles. one aricle wasa running down the left column, both above the fold. one article was a discussion on the executive order, andthe pros and cons of the executive order. and the on the column running down the right side, of the paper, was a discuion about allegedly mproper lobbying contacts in washington. if you had any doubtthat the "new york times" was engaging in this greatational debate, he only had flip over to page 17 when he put the to stories directly together. so those types of anecdotes bring home for us the reality thate had joined these issues in a great national debate. and this administration is welcomg of that conveation. indeed, it's part of the reason we are so pleased of this conference, and ones like it. i try to come whenever i can, whenever invited. i have been privileged to appear at a large number of them. pleased that they are taking place. a second pillar of our reform efforts, in our first

have the same sort of theater of direct democracy being pursued with the same level of engagements in veral years past? do you sense that there is not so much going on, but it has not been replaced by somhing? where is it in terms of seeing something that looks like elections in government that people can touch? is it going behind closed doors, or is there a public theater that people are being exposed to? my own personal sense is that it is as you have described with respect to the foot public theater aspect of it. i think they -- with respect to the public theater aspect of i i think there has been a lot of media attention and a lot of governme promotion of the idea that these people's congresses are in effect a real expression of the people's will. i think they are meeting and they seem to be given, at least in the media, some role in terms of decision making the are highly publicized -- they are highly publicized. athe end of the day, the decisions are made by a very small group of people. i do not think that concept that has begun 40 years ago and tha was constantly shak up, at least m