[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 94 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              GRANTING MOST-FAVORED-NATION STATUS TO CHINA

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, the House will soon vote on most-
favored-nation status with China. That means should we have a trading 
relationship with this Communist dictatorship that violates the rights 
of its people, is belligerent against its neighbors, is helping in the 
proliferation of nuclear weapons, and a country that is now run by a 
group so hostile to the United States that it could well become our 
enemy in the future and possibly an enemy at war with the United States 
of America unless we do something?
  Mr. Speaker, this is not the time to grant that type of trading 
status, that grants this dictatorial regime the same status as we grant 
England and France and other democratic countries. We should put our 
foot down and say until we see changes in human rights and in their 
aggressive policies toward their neighbors and the stealing of American 
technology, we will not grant them this right. And if we do that, we 
will be protecting the interests of the people of the United States of 
America and we will be securing our future, because tyrants understand 
action. They do not understand platitudes, and up to this point they 
have only heard platitudes about human rights from the United States of 
America.

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