[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15791]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          CHINA PROLIFERATION

  Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, I speak to the amendment of the Senator 
from Tennessee. There is no question that China proliferates. The very 
interesting feature to the entire picture here is that they object, of 
course, to us defending ourselves. As I see it, in essence, they are 
saying: Wait a minute. If you get a strategic defense initiative, if 
you get an antiballistic missile defense, that is going to deter or 
retard our proliferation, our sales to Pakistan, our sales to Iran.
  A nation's defense should never be negotiable. It is totally out of 
the question. We should not be running around talking to the Europeans 
or those in the Pacific rim when it comes to what is necessary and 
fundamentally needed for the defense of the United States.
  I support the Senator from Tennessee.

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