Ive said. Chinas MFN status should be revoked. Regrettably. however. despite one of these reports being prepared by our own State Department. that agency still maintains Chinas emigration policy Is basically free and open. As Deputy Secretary Eagleburger said to me last year. the State Department and I just have a difference of opinion as to what constitutes a free and open emigration policy. The State Departments intransigence on the emigration Issueand the fact that many of our colleagues have focused on other Chinarelated problemsthe emigration Issue which should be the true focus of the MFN debate has been left In the dust. This I find deeply saddeningespecially when I think of those people physically precluded from leaving China In search of the liberty and freedom that you and I take for granted. I am further disheartened that the Congress as a whole lacks the guts to pass a motion of disapproval resolution and send it to the President. Rest assuredour lack of resolve only encourages Chinese leaders to continue shunng free emigration and basic human rights. Moreover. while I will likely support H.R. 5318. Congress collective obsession with the conditionality approach also gives me pause for concern.
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