I urge the President not to be satisfied with cosmetic gestures that do nothing to relieve the plight of the thousands of dissidents in Chinese prisons or the millions of other Chinese who seek only to live in freedom. As Winston Lord. United States Ambassador to China in the Reagan administration. and a Senior adviser on China policy in the Nixon and Ford administrations. told the Senate Immigration Subcommittee last month: There is no question in my mind that the hardliners themselves dont respect an administration that can be fooled by cosmetic gestures. The moderates there are robbed of the argument that repression in China entails International costs. As we have learned to our regret in recent months. the Bush administration tends to choose times when Congress Is not in session to bow to the desires of the Chinese rulers.
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