[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 19, 1994]
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             SECRETARY PERRY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO AMERICANS

  (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, on Wednesday, Secretary Perry met with General 
Xu, the deputy chief of staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 
at the Pentagon. When General Xu arrived at the Pentagon, he got the 
red carpet treatment. He even got a welcoming band.
  Now, I know Secretary Perry is a good man, but it is incomprehensible 
why they would do this for the Butcher of Beijing. General Xu is 
second-in-command for the People's Liberation Army. He was deputy chief 
of staff in 1989 when the army gunned down thousands of students. He 
commands an army that sold weapons to Iraq prior to the gulf war that 
were used to kill American men and women. He commands an army that 
sells weapons to the dictatorship in Khartoum that kills black 
Christians. He commands an army that supports a brutal Communist 
dictatorship that tortures and beats Catholic bishops and priests and 
protestant missionaries.
  I do not think Secretary Perry was wrong for meeting with General Xu, 
but it is almost sick to think that he would give General Xu a red 
carpet treatment. It could have been a protocol mistake, but if it was 
intentional, then Secretary Perry owes a big apology to the families of 
all the Chinese-Americans who were killed in Tiananmen Square, an 
apology to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq, and apologies to 
the Chinese families who will hear on Voice of America today that 
Secretary Perry gave red carpet treatment to General Xu, who is the 
Butcher of Beijing. He owes an apology to this Congress, too.

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