Over and over. we pass legislation intended to express United States outrage at Chinas human rights record. Yet. over and over. President Bush calls in his political chips and sends out his top lobbyists to defeat these initiatives. First. it was the Chir.ese students bill. which would have given student refugees from the Tiananmen Square crackdown a safe haven here in the United States. The President thought that extending Chinese students visas in the United States would insult the Chinese leadership. The students families and friends were being jailed and killed back in China. but in Washington. President Bush was more concerned about insulting the Beijing politburo.
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