    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton (1996, Book I)]
    [February 6, 1996]
    [Page 177]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Message to the Congress on Satellite Exports to China
    February 6, 1996

    To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 902(b)(2) of the
    Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public
    Law 101-246), and as President of the United States, I hereby report to
    the Congress that it is in the national interest of the United States to
    waive the restrictions contained in that Act on the export to the
    People's Republic of China of U.S.-origin satellites insofar as such
    restrictions pertain to the CHINASAT project.

                                                          William J. Clinton

    The White House,

    February 6, 1996.