[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             TWENTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Twenty-four years ago, peaceful, pro-democracy 
demonstrators gathered in Tiananmen Square were brutally crushed by the 
People's Liberation Army. The Chinese Government remains frightened by 
the spirit that animated that protest.
  I will submit for the Record an article from today's Washington Post, 
which reported that:

       In the 2\1/2\ decades since the protests' violent end, 
     China's government has largely scrubbed Tiananmen from 
     history.

  In 1991, Congressman Chris Smith and I traveled to China where we 
visited Beijing Prison Number One, which housed approximately 40 
Tiananmen Square protesters. While our request to visit the 
demonstrators was denied, we left with a pair of socks made by 
prisoners for export to the West.
  The events of the past and the continued repression today are made 
worse by this administration's failure to prioritize human rights in 
our relationship with China.
  Will President Obama even mention Tiananmen in his summit with the 
Chinese President this week, or will he abide by the censor's wishes 
and pretend it never happened?

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