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Continued movement toward a fully flexible exchange rate will also remove a major barrier to stronger U.S.-China commercial and economic relations
U.S.: China currency float 'first step' Jul 21, 2005

I am encouraging that we should be evolutionary, not revolutionary
U.S. pressure on China is risky business May 19, 2005

I am opposed to any single company, country (taking) punitive actions. We have the WTO as a way to deal with this. There is no question that domestic politics are playing a huge tone here
U.S. pressure on China is risky business May 19, 2005

I think they are about ready to move on it. They've been testing it and they've been floating it a little to see where it goes
U.S. pressure on China is risky business May 19, 2005

I think they are better off than they were now
U.S. pressure on China is risky business May 19, 2005

Thomas Reilly Donahue (born September 4, 1928) was Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995 and served briefly as its acting President during the second half of 1995.

Born and raised in New York City, after receiving his undergraduate degree at Manhattan College he became a business agent for the New York local of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), during which time it became one of the most powerful unions in the city of New York. In 1963 he became assistant to the President of the national SEIU and then served as Assistant Secretary of Labor during the last two years of the Johnson Administration. From 1969 to 1973 he served as Executive Secretary of SEIU and became executive assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany, in 1973.

Already an influential figure as Meany's executive assistant, when Meany retired in 1979 Donahue was elected Secretary-Treasurer. In this capacity Donahue played a leading role in the AFL-CIO's critical support movement for Poland's Solidarnosc or Solidarity movement, which succeeded in establishing free trade unions in the Soviet bloc and was a key catalyst for the fall of Communism.

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