[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 29772]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      FOREIGN POLICY DEFICIENCIES

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, let me make sure I understand this. 
While he was in Istanbul yesterday, President Clinton called on Turkey 
to correct its human rights abuses so it could be admitted into the 
European Union. Yet at the same time that our President was admonishing 
Turkey, our U.S. Trade Representative was in Beijing signing a trade 
deal that could one day give the People's Republic of China membership 
in the World Trade Organization.
  Are we to infer that the Kurds in Turkey count for more than Tibetans 
in China or that Greek Cypriots count for more than Chinese Christians 
or that the European Union is a more exclusive and principled 
organization than the World Trade Organization?
  Or, this could not be it, could it? Are American corporations more 
involved with bigger investments and have more at stake in China than 
they are in Turkey? Does that explain why Time Warner's CEO recently 
gave Chinese President Jiang Zemin a bust of Abraham Lincoln?
  Earlier this year we fought a war for human rights in Kosovo. Today 
we will not raise a tariff for human rights in China.

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