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by newfriend 2450 days ago
Great comment.

It has absolutely been a problem for decades, and most likely a well-known one. I was recently watching a collection of old jokes from Saturday Night Live from the 90s, and came upon this from Weekend Update in 1996:

> Following the surprise withdrawal of his nominee Anthony Lake, President Clinton has chosen acting CIA director George Tenant to head up the agency. Now all he needs is the approval of the House, the Senate, and this Chinese guy. [Photo of elderly bespectacled Asian man]

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96pupdate.phtml

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probably a reference to this whole thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_fi...

some posit that this (may have) helped elect the clintons who in turn moved for the WTO/trade liberalization.