[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5084-H5089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 CHINA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hayes). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 6, 1999, the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Rohrabacher) is recognized for 50 minutes.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, by the end of July, the Congress will 
again vote on most-favored-nation status, that is, granting this 
special status to the People's Republic of China. This is the 11th year 
in which I will have voted on this issue, and this time, however, it 
will be called, instead of MFN, most-favored-nation status, it will be 
called NTR, normal trade relations.
  Every year, as the Communist Chinese refuse to lower their huge 
tariffs on American exports, goods that in fact make it impossible for 
us to have a trade balance with them and we end up with, every year, 
even though we vote most-favored-nation status, they keep those huge 
tariffs on our goods while their goods can flood into our country at 
very low tariffs and thus we end up every year with a huge deficit in 
our trade balance with the Communist Chinese and they have a huge 
surplus, 60, $70 billion worth of surplus.
  So what are we doing? Why are we doing this year after year after 
year when the final result is always that they maintain high tariffs 
against our products while we permit their products to flood into our 
markets? What is going on here? Is that something that is good for the 
United States of America? Is it good for us to have an unfair trading 
relationship with the world's worst human rights abuser? Of course we 
are being told that if we do this, other things will happen, like, for 
example, not only will they lower their tariffs eventually, but 
eventually they will liberalize their country and become more 
democratic.
  Of course, we have not seen any evidence of that at all. There has 
been no evidence that they are reforming in terms of opening up their 
markets to our people who would like to sell our products there and 
there is no evidence that they are becoming more liberal or that there 
is less oppression in Communist China.
  The difference between this year's vote and past years when we voted 
on this will be that Congress is voting most-favored-nation status, or, 
I should say, normal trade relations status and we are granting that to 
the Communist Chinese, not only knowing that it is not lowering their 
tariffs and their trade barriers to our products coming in while they 
exploit our own, putting our people out of work with cheap products, of 
course, again knowing that it is not having any impact on 
liberalization, in fact it is more repressive now in Communist China 
than it

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was 10 years ago. There was an opposition 10 years ago. Now there is 
none. There are no free newspapers, opposition party or anything such 
as that. No, but we have known that all along. What is the difference 
this time is that we are doing this this year, Congress will be voting 
on this issue this year knowing, thanks to the Cox Committee and the 
New York Times and the Washington Times that the Beijing dictatorship 
is at this moment now beginning to produce nuclear weapons based on 
technology that it has stolen from us.
  So here we are about to vote to grant this trading status, normal 
trading relations with Communist China, this Communist dictatorship, 
knowing that at this very same moment they are beginning to go into 
production on the first generation of weapons of mass destruction that 
have been improved and made possible and their delivery made more 
reliable and more certain by U.S. technology. These weapons of mass 
destruction, which will soon be able to incinerate any city in the 
United States, will be delivered by a new generation of Chinese rockets 
that have been made, as I say, more reliable and more deadly by 
American corporations and scientists working on either our government's 
payroll or working on the payroll of these huge American corporations. 
But, of course, the technology that they are giving and bestowing on 
the Chinese to make their rockets more reliable and more effective, 
this is deadly weapons technology which cost us, the American taxpayer, 
tens of billions of dollars to develop over the Cold War. They taxed it 
from our pockets in order to protect our country. We were told we were 
doing this in order to make our country more secure. But instead, this 
technology has been used and when we vote for normal trade relations 
with Communist China, we will now do so knowing that our relations with 
Communist China have not made it better for us economically in terms of 
the trade barriers are still there, it has not made China any freer but 
that they have actually, on top of all of these things, managed to 
upgrade their rockets, upgrade their capabilities with this technology, 
billions of dollars of technological secrets from the United States, 
and, of course, the rockets are loaded with their most deadly weapons, 
weapons beginning to be built based on the technology again that they 
got from the United States. In that case they stole it from us.
  Of course we are being told that our trade relationship with 
Communist China is mutually beneficial. It is a mutually beneficial 
relationship. That means it must be good for us in some way, as well as 
for the Chinese people in some way. Well, it is not good for the 
Chinese people. It is good for their clique that holds power with an 
iron fist in China beating down all opposition. And it is good for a 
few billionaires here in the United States--I call them Bill's 
Billionaire Buddies--but it certainly is not making China any less a 
threat to the peace and it certainly is not making our country any more 
prosperous, and even though China supposedly is more interdependent on 
us now, they do not seem to be any less belligerent, hostile and 
aggressive than they were 10 years ago. Yet every year, 50 and $60 
billion in hard currency, because we have molded the relationship with 
Communist China, these are the rules we have set down. The leaders of 
the United States of America have determined what the rules of the game 
are. They have sat down with the Communist Chinese, their bosses in 
Beijing, and said, we agree to these rules of the game. And at the end 
of the year, the Communist Chinese gangsters who run that country, they 
earn and they have to play with $60 billion in hard currency.
  So any talk about human rights and all these other things that are 
paraded up and down like the administration will suggest they believe 
in these things, the Communist Chinese dictators know that that is a 
lot of baloney, because if we really meant that we supported democracy 
and human rights or we were really concerned about the massacres in 
Tibet or the massacres of Muslims in the far western reaches of their 
country, we would be changing the rules of the game so that the 
Communist Chinese would not end up with these tens of billions of 
dollars of hard currency.
  They laugh at us. They think that it is a big joke. They think that 
our leaders do not believe in a darned thing and that human rights is 
nothing more than sloganeering; and that when this Congress again votes 
for most-favored-nation status or, as it is called now, normal trade 
relations, we too will be confirming for these dictators in Beijing, 
the world's worst human rights abusers, the people who now are using 
our technology to aim weapons at our cities that could potentially 
incinerate our populations, they know that we are still if we bestow on 
them this status, that Congress itself does not care enough about these 
violations in order not to vote to change the system that is working 
against us.

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  Yes, in this hall all of us, all of my colleagues, we will all vote 
on this issue, and it will be a message to those Chinese dictators, and 
unfortunately it will be a message to the people of China. What is 
really unfortunate is that the people of China are America's greatest 
allies. Those people who are now trying to defend their horrendous 
actions in supporting the Communist Chinese dictatorship are doing 
everything they can to try to divert the argument by claiming that this 
is in some way antiChinese.
  Those of us who are concerned about Communist Chinese power and what 
the economic relationship and what the other relationships we have had 
with the Communist Chinese have done to our country, we are, we are not 
in any way condemning the people of China. The people of China live 
under a Fascist like dictatorship. We cannot blame them, and in fact 
they are our greatest allies; we are on their side.
  What we want is freedom for those people in China, and when China has 
a democracy and the people of China are able to choose their own 
leaders and demand honest government and demand humane government and 
demand a government that respects the rights of people and does not 
waste their money on militarism and weapons systems, then China will no 
longer be a threat to the world; China will be a friend.
  In fact, if China had a democratic system now like Great Britain or 
Italy or Japan or other countries like that, we would not even be 
concerned that perhaps they would learn some of our nuclear weapon 
secrets. We would not care because it was a democratic, peace loving 
country. No, those people who are arguing that there is some kind of 
racism behind this are trying to deflect criticism, trying to deflect 
those who would unravel this mystery that has been left behind of what 
our policy is all about and why we have a policy that is so 
demonstrably against the economic and security interests of our country 
and of the Western World.
  Tonight I hope to convince anyone willing to listen that our trade 
relationship with Communist China is wrong. It is not working for the 
benefit of the American people, and it is not making China more open, 
nor is it making it more democratic. It is not making peace more 
likely, and in fact our China policy is merely filling the bank 
accounts of a new class of billionaires, both billionaires here and 
billionaires there.
  You have Chiang's cronies, his crony comrades, and Bill's billionaire 
buddies. At the same time, this perverted process bolsters the military 
might and economic power of, as I say, a nation that is controlled by a 
militaristic dictatorship that is the planet's worst human rights 
abuser, a government that is engaging in genocide in Tibet and has 
recently obliterated any organized political opposition among its 
massive population. It is a ruthless government that even while 
modernizing its military is already bullying its neighbors, and let us 
remember this when we are talking about China:
  We just spent tens of billions of dollars in the Balkans in order to 
save those people in Kosovo who were under the threat of genocide. Yet 
China, Communist China, is committing that same kind of genocide on the 
people of Tibet. They are committing similar genocide, and we are 
conducting, we do not know what is going on right now, but in the far 
reaches of western China against their Muslim population. But the 
people of Tibet continue to face this brutality in an attempt to wipe 
their culture off the face of the map. But yet when it comes to China, 
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have policies that encourage American businessmen to invest in China, 
building up their industrial capabilities while a reaction in Serbia 
and in Kosovo is to basically declare war on Serbia.
  Now let me just say for the record I did support the Kosovars' right 
to freedom and independence, and I thought we should have armed the 
Kosovars and recognized their independence. I think that the people of 
Tibet and other people in the world have that right, but the United 
States, and now I am not advocating that we go into Tibet and go into 
these countries around the world where they do have people who are 
being oppressed like this, but we should always side with people who 
are being oppressed by dictatorial regimes, by monstrous dictators like 
Mr. Milosevic.
  Mr. Milosevic is a Serbian dictator, and we have put a price on his 
head. At the same time we are shaking hands with the monsters in 
Beijing who have committed bloody crimes that are at least on the scale 
of Mr. Milosevic, and we are setting up a trading system which will be 
reaffirmed by a vote on Most Favored Nation status, normal trade 
relations, that will in the end result in tens of billions of dollars, 
$60 billion of hard currency at the end of the year, at the end of the 
accounting, will be in their hands because of the rules that we have 
set up.
  This makes no sense. It is contrary to the principles of our country, 
it is contrary to the values of our people, and worse than that, it is 
contrary to our national security interests. It is contrary to the 
safety, it undermines the safety of each and every person who lives in 
the United States of America, and we have seen that because they are 
taking that money and modernizing their weapon systems and using 
technology that they have stolen from the United States and that they 
have used to lure American businessmen into giving them to enable them 
to have rockets and missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction 
capable of incinerating millions of Americans that they would never 
have had in 20 or 30 years from now if it was not for the help that we 
were giving them and the relationship that we have established with 
this incredibly nonsensical, idiotic trade relationship.
  Dealing with China today is reminiscent to the threat that the world 
faced from the emerging Japanese military power in the 1920s. It is 
almost deja vu. As Yogi Berra said, it is deja vu all over again. Think 
about the 1920s. We are now in a period of prosperity as we were in the 
1920s, and there was a new power emerging in the world, but yet the 
United States did not feel that it could focus on that power, and in 
fact in Europe where Adolf Hitler just a few years later would emerge, 
the Japanese were ahead of Hitler. We ignored that threat as well 
because by the time that threat happened things were too ominous for 
us. And in the 1920s, we had a country, the Japanese empire; it was run 
by thugs, it was run by gangsters, these people who brutally beat up 
and murdered anybody who believed in democracy in their country, and 
there was a bit of a power struggle there with people who wanted to go 
toward the west in Japan in the early 1920s who were murdered and 
suppressed. We saw that happening. The thugs that ran Japan in the 
1920s believed in racial superiority.

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  They are perceived that they had an historic right to dominate Asia 
and the Pacific; and, of course, they saw something else. The Japanese 
realized that the United States was the only country capable of 
standing between their goals of domination of Asia and the Pacific and 
that we were the only country, the courage of our people was the only 
thing, that could stop them from expanding their brutal regime and its 
control to all of Asia and the Pacific basin.
  I am afraid, Mr. Speaker, that that is the kind of threat that we 
face now in Asia. It is not the 1920s, but there is a regime that is 
run by gangsters and dictators, thugs, people who are murdering their 
opposition, people who hate the West and hate everything that we stand 
for, people who believe that they are racially superior, people who 
believe that they have an historic right to dominate all of Asia and 
the Pacific basin. This country, of course, that I am referring to is 
Communist China.
  Communist China, again, if it was a democracy, would be no problem. 
This would be an era of hope. It would be an era of incredible 
opportunity for all humankind if China would be ruled by democracy 
rather than ruled by gangsters and thugs who commit heinous crimes to 
maintain their power and stand for everything that we oppose.
  Yes, just like with Japan, the Communist Chinese regime understands 
that only the United States has the power to stand between them and 
their goals; and their goal in Communist China today, their goal is to 
dominate all of Asia, all the way from Central Asia, where I predict 
soon we will see a massive influx of Chinese into the sparsely 
populated Central Asian republics. We will see territorial claims made 
there and claims on Siberia and Mongolia and Manchuria, and we will see 
claims as we have already seen of the Communist Chinese, rights to 
dominate all of Southeast Asia down through Burma and Cambodia and, 
yes, our great ally, Thailand. The communists in Vietnam, that 
dictatorship, is frightened to death.
  We see that the Communist Chinese are trying to expand their area of 
domination. They now have taken over small islands very close to the 
coastline of the Philippines. The Philippines, one of our great allies, 
a country struggling to be democratic, a country that has such close 
ties with the United States, a country that has a free press and 
freedom of religion, a country that represents the type of democratic 
reform and economic progress and the attempts by their new president to 
uplift the poorest of the poor in the Philippines, these people are 
trying their hearts out, they are doing everything they can to uplift 
their country only to be confronted with a militaristic threat of 
Communist China on their doorstep, where the Spratly Islands now, which 
are only 100 miles off their shore and 800 miles off the shore of 
Communist China, the Communist Chinese have come in and occupied some 
of those islands and built fortifications and stationed war ships in 
the lagoons; this to a practically demilitarized Philippines.
  This kind of bullying cannot be ignored. We ignored it when the 
Japanese did this during the 1920s, and it led to a war that cost 
millions of lives.
  Today we still have a chance to try to change that. We sold the 
Japanese during this time airplane designs. We sold them fuel. We sold 
them metal. We had quite a trading relationship with them. In fact, 
Germany with all this talk about how free trade and interactive trade 
is going to make somebody less aggressive, totally was interactive 
economically with the rest of Europe. We even had exchange programs 
with the Japanese. We let the Japanese militarists study our systems up 
close. There were military exchanges. We actually gave Japanese 
military officials the right to look at our military bases and talk to 
us about our military tactics and have interaction with our military in 
the 1920s.
  Of course, the Japanese thought we were weaklings. Their reaction to 
our openness was not, oh, my, the Americans then are not really our 
enemy. Instead, the Japanese militarists were saying what weaklings 
these are, because we were dealing not with a democratic regime that 
would have looked at that as a friendly gesture but a dictatorship, 
tough guys running a country, and that is what we have in China today.
  They interpret our willingness to have these same type of military 
exchange programs, our willingness to let Communist Chinese scientists 
come into our laboratories, our willingness to permit a trade 
relationship to continue that gives them $60 billion a year of hard 
currency, they look at that as weakness. They do not look at that as 
being friendship.
  I went to the Spratly Islands. I went there. The State Department did 
everything they could to prevent me from going there, and I went with a 
member of my staff, Al Santoli, and a couple of other Americans, with a 
couple of Filipino legislators, and we flew right over the Spratly 
Islands and saw them building those fortifications. Our government, the 
State Department, tried everything they could do to prevent me from 
getting there so that I could not explain that to the American people 
and take the pictures that would open up this debate.

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  I have also led the congressional opposition to what I consider the 
mind-boggling military exchange program that we have had between the 
Pentagon and the Communist Chinese. This year, the so-called game plan 
for military exchanges included Communist Chinese officials attending 
workshops or seminars on supplies, how to supply their army and do so 
effectively, on logistics, on special operations, on military strategy. 
This was part of the Clinton administration's game plan for how we were 
going to interact with the Communist Chinese military. It included 
letting the Communist Chinese attend sophisticated air and naval war 
games as well as observing our elite 82nd Airborne Division at its 
paratrooper training operations at our National Training Center in 
California.
  Now, this was part of the administration's game plan for this year, 
despite the fact that the administration already knew that the 
Communist Chinese had a major espionage effort that had stolen our most 
sacred secrets, our most well-kept secrets on nuclear weapons. They 
knew the Communist Chinese had come into possession of nuclear weapons 
secrets that had cost us tens of billions of dollars and were upgrading 
their rockets and upgrading their weapons systems based on this 
technology. But yet they went right ahead to plan this military 
exchange program as if there was nothing wrong.
  Yes, well, something is wrong. Something is wrong all right. 
Something is terribly wrong here in Washington. And despite the 
revelations of Chinese weapons espionage, the espionage at our weapons 
laboratories, a Chinese delegation, now this is after we have known all 
about how the Chinese have managed to get their hands on some of this 
technology that eventually came from our weapons laboratories, this 
administration still had scheduled a Chinese delegation to visit Sandia 
National Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico.

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  All of these exchange programs with the military even went there. 
First of all, what I want to know is why any potential hostile power to 
the United States has its scientists roaming around our laboratories in 
the first place. But now we are being told even after the 
administration knew that they had stolen these secrets, secrets that 
could put in jeopardy or are putting in jeopardy, these secrets are 
putting in jeopardy the lives of tens of millions of Americans, they 
are still moving forward with this, blase, blithefully moving forward 
and blithefully, again, coming to Congress asking us, forget all about 
that, forget about all the security stuff, go ahead and grant most-
favored-nation status, normal trade relations with the communist 
Chinese as if none of that has taken place.
  We have learned a lot of this since last year. For 10 years we have 
been voting to grant this. If Congress votes again to do this, it will 
do so knowing these revelations, knowing about these revelations of 
this espionage and about how damaged our national security has been.
  Of course, we are being told that China is being liberalized by our 
trade. Let us just tackle that question, is China actually being 
liberalized because we are trading with them? And by the way, no one is 
talking about cutting off trade. We are just talking about not granting 
them the same trade status we would to a democratic society.
  During this time when we have granted this vicious dictatorship the 
same trading status we would to Italy, Belgium, or England, we have 
found that they were going in the opposite direction. There is no more 
opposition in China. They are either in their Lao Gai prison camps or 
they are in exile or they have been murdered.
  Ten years ago there was an opposition. Tibet is still being 
destroyed. There is still genocide going on. In fact, the World Bank, 
supported by our tax dollars, is thinking about spending $100 million 
in order to help transport regular Chinese people into the territory 
where Tibetan people live. Gee, thanks. Our taxpayers are even 
subsidizing the genocide.
  There is no free press in China. There has been no evolution towards 
a free press.
  Now the Chinese, of course, are insisting that we register religious 
people. If you just register these religious people, they will be free 
to practice their religion. We have heard that before. Did we not hear 
that in Germany in the 1930s, if the Jews just register, everything 
will be okay? We have seen this in the past in China, where people were 
lured out into the open, and then a few years later when the hammer 
came down, they were arrested and they were slaughtered.
  Anybody suggesting, and this goes for Billy Graham or whoever else is 
trying to convince Christians to register in China, should be ashamed 
of themselves because they are not reading history and they are giving 
the benefit of the doubt to this bloody regime, and they in the end 
will cost the lives of these believers.
  Of course, they also have forced abortion, which continues unabated, 
and we have seen no development of an independent judiciary. In fact, 
the President of the United States, for us to vote on most-favored-
nation, for it to be granted, I should say normal trade relations, the 
President has to certify every year that there has been some progress 
made toward these democratic goals, that human rights are being more 
respected.
  Is there any evidence of that at all? No. The only evidence is that 
the President is not taking that job seriously when it comes to 
certifying that there has been human rights progress. I think that is 
the most charitable way that I can put this, because he certifies that 
there has been progress made in China on human rights when all of this 
bloody repression goes on.
  This trade relationship has, as I say, resulted in this annual trade 
surplus for the communist Chinese. We are being told if you believe in 
free trade, you have to believe in this. You have got to support it, 
because after all, you are for free trade. That is one of the reasons 
we have been having some good times here in the United States is 
because we have free trade.
  I have three words for that: Baloney, baloney, baloney. We are not 
talking about free trade here. Free trade is something that is mutually 
beneficial. We have already demonstrated that this is not mutually 
beneficial trade, it is going to help the clique that runs communist 
China who are billionaires, and a few of our billionaires. It is trade 
that is manipulated by this powerful and ruthless and calculating 
communist Chinese regime.
  On our side, of course, we do have these multinational corporations 
who have shown us just how loyal they are by taking their first chance. 
Whenever they can get away with doing it, they will bestow upon the 
communist Chinese weapons and technology that could very well end up 
killing Americans, and they know darned well that that is the risk of 
what is happening, but they are eager to make a buck, a very quick 
buck.
  These multinational corporations, and by their very nature, 
multinational means they end up with the flag of the United States not 
even sometimes being flown outside. Sometimes they will fly the U.N. 
flag or whatever.
  Then of course we have a clique of billionaires who also are 
benefiting, because we have set up this system so it not only provides 
the communist Chinese with $60 million in hard currency, we have set up 
a system that subsidizes businessmen when they decide to close up a 
factory in the United States and open it up in China; in other words, 
building the industrial capacity and technological capacity of this 
vicious dictatorship.
  That is what this vote, by the way, is all about. It is not about the 
ability of American corporations to sell American products in Communist 
China. It is not about that at all. If we do not grant most-favored-
nation status or normal trade relations, as they now call it, it will 
not deny any American businessman the right to sell over there. The 
only difference is whatever business he does in Communist China will 
have to be done at his or her own risk.
  By granting most-favored-nation status, we are permitting these 
businessmen to obtain loans that are subsidized or guaranteed by the 
American taxpayer through the Export-Import Bank, through OPEC, through 
IMF, World Bank, Asian-Pacific bank, all kinds of things. There are so 
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these institutions out there that we do not even know about, but of 
course if we do not grant them official status, they will not get these 
guaranteed loans or these subsidies. And thus, by voting on ``free 
trade,'' what we are really doing is subsidizing businessmen for 
closing jobs here and closing factories here which will only make them 
5 or 6 or 7 percent, because they have competition and environmental 
laws and things like that that they have to deal with here; but 
instead, it permits them to have it guaranteed in order to set up a 
factory over in a Communist dictatorship, taxing our people in order to 
guarantee the loans so the guy will set up a factory providing jobs in 
Communist China which will eventually put our people out of work over 
here.
  Almost none of the trade we are talking about with Communist China is 
where we are selling refrigerators or selling some product that is 
manufactured here, because the Chinese erected all these barriers that 
we cannot get through. When they talk about business with China, what 
they are really talking about is American companies going over there 
and setting up factories for production in China.
  Does that make any sense? This is not good for the United States of 
America, it is not good for our people, especially when it is a 
dictatorship.
  On top of that, we have other countries that are democratic 
countries, even in Indonesia now, where they actually are trying to 
have democracy after 20 years, and I think they have a real chance if 
we get behind them and try to help establish the democracy in 
Indonesia. They have such a corrupt, terrible dictatorship now the 
Indonesian people have risen up. Let us try to help them and the 
Philippines.
  But certainly, why should we do that, why should we encourage people 
to invest in a Communist dictatorship, instead of the Philippines or 
these other countries? What is happening is we have some very powerful 
interests in the United States of America who are making big bucks off 
short-term profits, and it is done at the expense of our country, at 
the expense of the economic well-being and the expense of our national 
security.
  These people are having a tremendous impact. They are in fact doing 
everything they can to ensure that this system continues.
  Today we heard evidence at the Committee on Science. It was a report 
given to us by former Senator Rudman, who gave us a report on the 
security situation of our national labs, which he had been studying for 
several months.
  He verified a story that recently ran in the New York Times just a 
few days ago that the White House actually knew of the Chinese 
espionage that we have been talking about tonight, that the White House 
was made aware of this in 1995.

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  This was Senator Rudman today verifying that fact. This is a full 
year before what we have been told now. Up until now the White House 
has always told us, remember, like there were only going to be a few 
FBI files and it turned out to be hundreds of FBI files? The White 
House until now has told us they did not know about it until 1996. That 
was bad enough. Now we find out they were actually alerted to this in 
1995, and Senator Rudman's report condemned the administration for not 
treating this information with the due diligence that it deserved.
  What Senator Rudman did not put in his report was what happened to 
those loyal watchdogs who warned the White House of this communist 
Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy that resulted in their 
ability to operate their nuclear weapons systems and their rockets. 
What Senator Rudman did not put in his report was that Notra Trulock, 
who was someone who was overseeing security at the Department of 
Energy, tried to warn the administration and was demoted and was 
castigated and was attacked and almost thrown out of a job. What we did 
not hear about was Ed McCallum, Chief of Security at the Department of 
Energy, who warned the administration that something terrible was 
happening and that we had to look at the security issues, and right now 
he has been put on administrative leave because they went digging and 
digging until they could find something on that man to try to hurt him 
for alerting us to that information. Victor Reis, Victor Reis, who 
today Senator Rudman applauded for his diligence, an assistant 
secretary, one of the shining lights of responsibility at the 
Department of Energy, was fired just this week from the Department of 
Energy. Three people trying to warn America, watchdogs, trying to 
scream out, ``danger, danger,'' and instead what are they given for 
their diligence, for their hard work and loyalty to this country? They 
are beaten up, they are cast off out of their jobs, their families are 
put in jeopardy of losing everything. These are civil servants. This is 
a pattern of abuse, it is a pattern of abuse of these contentious 
watchdogs, and it is beyond imagination that this administration has 
been doing this, and we just sit by and let it happen.
  These watchdogs warned us that the communist Chinese were acquiring 
these deadly weapons which put Americans in jeopardy by the tens of 
millions, and for it they were fired, they were demoted, attacked, 
humiliated, their families' lives were put in jeopardy in terms of 
their income.
  This is a pattern by this administration of coverup, of deceit and 
betrayal. This cannot happen. We cannot let this happen.
  Ronald Reagan once said that there is nothing that is wrong with the 
United States Government that cannot be cured by one good election, and 
we just need, and I am not talking about Republicans or Democrats, I am 
saying we need to elect people with integrity, we need to elect people 
who are honest. We need to elect people whose main loyalty is to the 
people of the United States of America, whether they are Democrats or 
Republicans.
  We may disagree about what direction, but we have been tied to some 
billionaires who are making money in China even though it is not in the 
interests of our country. We have got to change that. We have got to 
change that right here in Congress.
  We are going to vote on that very shortly. There will be a vote 
sometime before the end of July. But, like anything else that we can 
accomplish, we cannot just do it here. We need the American people to 
be involved. If anybody is listening to this presentation or reading it 
in the Congressional Record who thinks that, well, we can just leave it 
up to the politicians, see how bad all the politicians are, no. If the 
American people do not act, our country is going to go to hell in a 
hand basket, and we are already halfway there. Our security, tens of 
millions of our citizens, hundreds of millions of our citizens now are 
at risk from weapons systems that came from our own technology 
development, that were taken from us and are now aiming in our 
direction.
  We have got jobs that are being taken away, plants being closed here, 
and we are subsidizing jobs being created in communist China, so when 
they build these new factories over there, they are doing so with 
guarantees for money that is taxed from us.
  We have to end this policy, that gives them a $60 billion surplus 
which they can use to modernize their weapons systems and terrorize 
their neighbors and brutalize their own people. But we need the 
American people to be active. The American people must express their 
will, and that means each and every American, veterans organizations. 
Anyone who is part of a veterans organization should be making sure 
that in this July 4th recess, when we go back, and we are leaving 
Friday for a full week back in our districts, every Congressman should 
be contacted by their veterans, by religious organizations concerned 
about the oppression that is going on of religious believers in China, 
labor unions that know this relationship, where we are building 
factories over there to compete with our own jobs there, that is wrong.
  We have got to make sure people who believe in human rights are 
concerned about China's domination of Burma. We had a gentleman here 
talking about the drug problem before I got up. Yeah, where do those 
drugs come from? A lot of that heroin comes from Burma. And who 
controls Burma but the communist Chinese, in a bloody deal with that 
dictatorship called the SLORC dictatorship. They have given them the 
weapons they need, and they are slowly but surely turning Burma into a 
vassal state and taking their teakwood and opium and selling it on the 
world market. No one wants to talk about that. Oh, you can't prove 
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  Where does it go? How does it get past, if the communist Chinese 
dominate that part of the world? We need people who are concerned about 
the people of the United States and our safety, about people in our 
military who are going to be facing technology, facing technology that 
was developed in the United States and then it might end up killing 
Americans.
  When I was a young boy my father was a United States Marine. I lived 
in Japan with him, and he flew missions, they were spy missions along 
the coast of Japan. He told me he would fly at very low altitude taking 
pictures, and they would take pictures of the coastline to see if 
anything was going on on the communist coastline that could threaten 
Japan, Korea or Taiwan. There were a group of men that did this.
  We lived in this little enclave of American families, and one day one 
of those men was shot down. That is when I was 10 years old. I still 
remember the tears of my young playmates and the fear in the eyes and 
the sorrow in the eyes of the wife of this pilot who lost his life 
defending his country, and I do not remember his name. I bet nobody 
remembers his name. But he gave his life defending this country against 
communist Chinese aggression.
  I will tell you something else my father did. There was one of the 
things he did in the Marine Corps, he really did not have a major 
career, he was there for 23 years, but one thing he did was develop the 
Navy way of dropping the atomic bomb.
  It was like this. It is sort of a maneuver where the plane goes down, 
and it can be with a fighter bomber. It lofts the bomb as the plane 
goes off this way. It permitted our aircraft carriers to become 
strategic weapons.
  During that process, my dad told this idea to the commanding officer, 
and he was immediately given a squadron and told with all speed get 
this done. Develop this. It will change the formula of the Cold War and 
make your country safer, because we will have a better balance of these 
nuclear weapons.
  My dad went out and he pushed these pilots in this squadron, and they 
knew what they were doing. They knew they were trying to protect our 
country, and four of them lost their lives during that time period of 
six months where they were pushing the envelope to try to figure out 
how to develop this new weapons system, this nuclear weapons system, in 
order to protect our country.
  My mother told me of how they and my father had to go to a family, to 
a wife who was waiting for her husband, and her husband had died in a 
crash that night. It was their first wedding anniversary. She was never 
told why her husband died, because it was top secret that he was 
developing this new way of delivering this bomb.
  People have died to protect this country. I do not remember the name 
of that woman or those four men who gave their lives or even the father 
of the playmates that I used to be with who died, but we owe it to them 
to keep our country safe and secure and not to let these secrets go to 
our enemies, not to let weapons that can shoot down our own pilots get 
into the hands of the enemy or weapons that could incinerate us. This 
is obscene. It is an obscene betrayal of our country. Most-favored-
nation status is at the heart of it, because it tells the Chinese 
communists we do not care.
  Well, I hope that you will visit your Congressman and you will visit 
anyone who will listen and make your voice heard at the 4th of July 
parade, saying no most-favored-nation status for communist China. 
Democracy for China. Then this government will listen and we can save 
America and save freedom and save the peace of the world.

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