I'm talking about the party's choice between economic nationalism and global economic engagement.
In practical terms, what would economic engagement with North Korea look like?
Twenty-six years later, this policy of economic engagement between China and the developed world remains largely unchanged.
But the effort to induce China to improve its treatment of dissidents through "economic engagement" has failed to produce results.
The American public, hoping for better jobs and wages, was very much in favor of economic engagement with the world.
First, we must intensify our civilian and economic engagement.
In the case of China, for example, the Administration has argued that economic engagement will lead to greater political freedom.
He can grant most-favored-nation trade status - and speed up economic engagement.
And he urged that the Administration allow economic engagement with China as the best way to influence its policies.
The way to bring freedom to Cuba would be through economic engagement but political isolation.