[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 121 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 121

  Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government 
   should conduct a policy review of its relations with the People's 
                           Republic of China.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2001

  Mr. Hoeffel (for himself, Mr. Engel, Mr. Platts, Mr. Tancredo, Ms. 
   Kaptur, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Abercrombie) submitted the following 
     concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government 
   should conduct a policy review of its relations with the People's 
                           Republic of China.

Whereas the Department of State released, on February 26, 2001, its annual 
        Country Report on Human Rights Practices and named the Government of the 
        People's Republic of China a perpetrator of human rights abuses, stating 
        that ``the [Chinese] government continue[s] to commit widespread and 
        well-documented human rights abuses, in violation of internationally 
        accepted norms'';
Whereas the Country Report on Human Rights Practices observes that the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China has intensified its 
        controls on religious practice and freedom of expression in Tibet and 
        other areas of China;
Whereas the Country Report on Human Rights Practices notes that thousands of 
        leaders from the religious group Falun Gong have been imprisoned and 
        that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have remained in detention, 
        have been sentenced to reeducation-through-labor camps, or have been 
        incarcerated in mental institutions, and that approximately 100 or more 
        Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of torture and mistreatment in 
        custody;
Whereas the Government of the Peoples Republic of China has continued to hold 
        the United States Navy EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance aircraft that made 
        an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan on April 1, 2001;
Whereas for eleven days the Government of the People's Republic of China held 
        against their will 24 members of the United States military who, in 
        accordance with international law, made an emergency landing in the EP-
        E3 military aircraft on the island of Hainan on April 1, 2001;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China has instigated 
        increasingly provocative military actions towards Taiwan by steadily 
        expanding its arsenal of missiles, aircraft, submarines and destroyers 
        intended to threaten Taiwan, including hundreds of new short-range 
        ballistic missiles targeted at Taiwan; and
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China is seeking to play an 
        increased role in international affairs through enhanced trade relations 
        with the United States and other nations through its application for 
        full membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other cultural 
        interactions such as its bid to host the 2008 Olympics: Now, therefore, 
        be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the President of the United States and his advisors 
        should be commended for their success and the diplomatic skill 
        with which they negotiated the safe return of the 24 American 
        crew members; and
            (2) the United States Government should conduct a policy 
        review of the nature of its relations with the Government of 
        the People's Republic of China in light of these recent events.
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