Speech #1020058775

At issue from the perspective of the Chinese people is whether their country is economically going to be brought into the 21st century a la Taiwan or a la Ethiopia. Here let me remind this body that just 30 years ago. just prior to the cultural revolution. 2 million people starved to death in a single Chinese prefecture. Does this Congress dare suggest that it is a humanitarian policy to slam shut Americas traditional open door policy and shut down the free enterprise movement that has allowed China to feed its population. to plant the seeds of a free political movement? At a time in history when the nexus between commerce. diplomacy. and the roots of national power is becoming ever more manifest. a quixotic policy of economic selfabnegation toward the worlds most populous country would represent the apogee of congressional folly. Defeat this selfdefeating legislation.