[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 187 (Monday, November 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5474-S5475]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                 China

  Madam President, this week, President Biden plans on meeting with

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President Xi Jinping, and I would ask the President and his advisers: 
What have we gotten out of previous talks with the Chinese Government? 
Do they have any goal other than appeasement?
  Several American officials have already sat down for this same photo 
op. So we know exactly what we are going to get out of it--not much.
  What we do know is that Chinese drug lords will continue killing 
Americans with the fentanyl they are smuggling across our southern 
border via all of the drug cartels that are bringing it in. The Chinese 
military will continue menacing our partners in Taiwan and the Pacific 
island nations, and the Chinese spies who control TikTok will continue 
pushing terrorist propaganda at our American teenagers and college 
students.
  We should not reward this behavior by lending legitimacy to the 
Chinese Communist Party, and we certainly should not allow this latest 
diplomatic charade to lure the country into a false sense of security. 
China is our adversary. We ought not to be sitting down with China 
until they stop shipping fentanyl into this country, until they stop 
participating as a part of the ``axis of evil,'' and we need to make 
certain that we treat them as an adversary, not as an ally.