[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 24952-24953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  SAY NO TO COMMUNIST CHINA'S ENTRY INTO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 19, 1999, the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher) is 
recognized during morning hour debates for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Speaker, who is watching out for America? That 
is the question of the day. Supposedly that is our first responsibility 
as elected officials, watching out for the United States of America. 
Today, however, too many Americans with power and influence do not 
consider watching out for our country's interests and the well-being of 
our people to be their priority. Today we constantly hear about 
globalism, and we constantly hear the words world economy as if the 
development of this new world order is the goal of America's 
leadership. Madam Speaker, that is their goal, and sometimes that goal 
is antithetical to the best interests of the people of the United 
States. But our leaders move forward blithely as if they are part of an 
altruistic historic movement in which leaders throughout the planet are 
sheparding all of human kind into a homogenous world.
  It is not working according to plan. The world is not becoming this 
one world place where idealism reigns and people are acting together in 
a peaceful manner and an honest manner. It just does not seem to be 
acting according to their plan. The dream of our globalists is becoming 
a nightmare, especially for the national security interests of the 
American people and the potential for the spread of real democracy and 
individual liberty throughout a substantial portion of this planet.
  One of the problems the globalist dreamers in the United States 
refuse to acknowledge is that leaders of most of this world's power 
blocks are not playing the game. Surprise, surprise, surprise; those 
people, those leaders in other parts of the world, are basing their 
decisions on what is best for their own countries and their own peoples 
and not with some overall view of the planet.
  America's relations with Communist China, with the Communist Chinese 
dictatorship, is a disgrace. It is a total rejection of the ideals upon 
which our country is founded, but again reflect the ideas that are the 
basis of our decision-making towards China. The fact that we have 
treated China in a way in order to harmonize our relations with the 
world with a new world order in order to make China part of a world 
trading organization, the fact that we have treated them in this way, 
which is often quite irrational for the moment, has this made us and 
made the world any more prosperous? Has it made peace any more likely? 
Is China any closer to democratic reform?
  The answer is no, no, no; and yet we still have people here who are 
pushing to put China into the World Trade Organization, the equivalent 
of putting the local Chicago gangster into the Chamber of Commerce 
hoping that that would change that gangster's ways. Well, we do not 
need Al Capone in the Chamber of Commerce, and we do not need Communist 
China in an organization that will make the decisions about trade and 
commerce the production of wealth throughout the world.
  But even our relations with our democratic European allies are 
working against us with China, with our relations with China because we 
have had a decision-making process based on some sort of global 
concepts rather than the interests of the United States. The people of 
the United States are being put at a disadvantage by trade and our 
national security is being gravely threatened.

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  But as I say, even our relations with our democratic European allies 
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working against the interests of the American people. Because as much 
as America's elite refuses to recognize it, our European friends are 
watching out for their own interests. They are not watching out for us; 
they are not watching out for the world. Our European allies are 
treating us like we are suckers, and, of course, we are.
  Through NATO, we are subsidizing the defense of a portion of this 
planet that has a higher standard of living and higher gross national 
product than our own. We are fighting their battles. And, while we give 
most-favored-nation status to developing countries like China, and 
actually to the detriment of our own people, our European allies 
through the European Union are raping other countries, other developing 
countries, especially in Eastern Europe.
  Madam Speaker, I would suggest that we need a new way of thinking in 
Washington that watches out for the interests of the people of the 
United States.

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