[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5412]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     CHINA TESTING AMERICAN RESOLVE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, after holding 24 Americans as prisoners, 
China now demands an apology, an apology for spying on a country who 
has missiles pointed at us. Beam me up. China is now testing American 
resolve, piece by piece, incident by incident.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to tell it like it is. China is trying to 
determine what Congress and Uncle Sam will do when China attacks 
Taiwan. That is the way it is, folks. I say the dragon is going too 
far.
  I yield back the fact that an attack on Taiwan is an attack on 
democracy, and, by God, that should be considered an attack on the 
United States of America.

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