Mr. President. this morning the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs held a hearing on Chinese students and human rights in China. The testimony received was really quite disturbingand extremely relevant to our upcoming vote on overriding the Presidents veto of the Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act. The subcommittee heard from Ambassador Winston Lord. our Ambassador to China during the Reagan administration. who expressed criticism of the administrations policy toward China. and urged Congress to override the Presidents veto of the Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act. We also heard very troubling statements from Chinese students in America who have been threatened and harassed by their own Embassy officials for even minimal participation in prodemocracy activities here. Chinese Embassy officials have demanded that students involved in the democracy movement submit written confessions aneL selfcriticisms of their prodemocracy activities. and many have been inormed that they will be branded for life as traitors and counterrevolutionaries if they do not.
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