[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 32 (Monday, March 21, 1994)]
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                         MFN STATUS FOR CHINA?

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. speaker, we are ready to face the question of granting 
or not granting MFN to China.
  Let me just express disappointment for the business community in 
Beijing--that is, the American business community--the way they treated 
Secretary Christopher.
  I would have hoped they would have said to Secretary Christopher, 
``Although there may be differences in whether you grant MFN or not 
grant MFN, Mr. Secretary, we share your goal for human rights, and we 
stand with you.'' The business community did not do that.
  I want to express concern.
  I want my colleagues to see the latest report in the National Journal 
about China, and I want to read it to you:

               [From the National Journal, Mar. 5, 1994]

                        New Charges About China

       The coming debate over China's most-favored-nation trading 
     status could be complicated by new allegations of brutality 
     in China's corrections system. Zhang Guei-Xing, a Hong Kong-
     based business executive and holder of an American green 
     card, was recently released after spending 30 months in a 
     detention center in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou in Henan 
     Province. He charges that during his stay, 200 inmates were 
     executed and that some body parts were sold to transplant 
     clinics in Japan and Hong Kong. The allegations are being 
     investigated by the American government.

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  Body parts, before they killed the men, they took their corneas and 
they took their kidneys for sale of the body parts.
  Third, I want to urge my colleagues to read the book by Harry Wo, who 
spent 19 years in a forced slave labor camp in China. As I say, there 
can be good men, and there are good men and women on both sides of the 
issue, but there should be no difference on whether or not we want to 
be strong for standing up for human rights and religious freedom.
  I want again to express my disappointment and urge the American 
business community in Beijing that it is OK to differ on our approach, 
but please stand firm and support the American policy of strong support 
with regard to human rights and religious freedom.

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