[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6433]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT OR APPEASEMENT

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, we are told that the United States of 
America is engaged in a policy of constructive engagement with the 
gerontocracy that runs China. We have just completed our second annual 
negotiations to allow the Chinese to continue to pirate over $2 billion 
a year in intellectual property rights from American companies. There 
is no change; they are still producing those disks today.
  Yes, there was a little show of closing down a few, but that will not 
last. We are going to run a $41 billion deficit with China, the most 
unfair trading nation on Earth, the most protectionist society on 
Earth. That means, according to our own Commerce Department's numbers 
we are going to lose 800,000 jobs to the unfair trade practices of the 
People's Republic of China.
  At some point the policy of constructive engagement starts to look an 
awful lot like appeasement, and we all know how effective the policy of 
appeasement was in dealing with Hitler's Third Reich.

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