1.   American businesses, often in their own self-interest, have frequently argued that economic engagement is the quickest route to democracy, and Pepsi is firmly in that camp.

2.   And he urged that the administration allow economic engagement with China as the best way to bring about reform.

3.   And he urged that the administration allow economic engagement with China as the best way to influence its policies.

4.   Clinton has admitted, as Berger did again on Monday, that economic engagement has failed to induce China to improve its human rights policies.

5.   Clinton insisted that over time, economic engagement with China would force the government to loosen its control over the political process.

6.   Economic engagement can indirectly benefit human rights by raising living standards and strengthening a middle class, which often becomes a key pressure group for liberal reforms.

7.   Economic engagement was supposed to spread U.S. influence.

8.   He accused the elder Bush of coddling dictators in China, and later became a far more articulate advocate of economic engagement with Beijing than his predecessor.

9.   He began from the other side of the China debate, denouncing President Bush for economic engagement with a nation that had just killed hundreds at Tiananmen Square.

10.   He has, in short, pressed the economic engagement argument to an extreme no other president, Bush included, has ever taken.