FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 24, 2000
BUCHANAN RESPONDS TO PNTR VOTE:
'THANK GOD I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN'
VIENNA, VA - Today, Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the following statement:
"With today's vote to end its annual review of Beijing's conduct and surrender all leverage over China policy, Congress has voted itself into irrelevancy on the great foreign policy issue of our time. But abdicating its constitutional duty does not absolve Congress of moral accountability for the consequences of its act of appeasement.
"Because of today's vote, the $70 billion trade surpluses Beijing runs yearly at America's expense will continue indefinitely. The U.S. will be feeding this tiger, year in and year out, an endless supply of jobs, capital, plants, and technology, certain to build up its military potential. Should China launch a war in the Taiwan Straits, Mr. Bush, Mr. Gore, and the Republican Congress that signed on to the Clinton China policy today will have to answer to history. Should Beijing continue its persecution of dissidents and Christians, the U.S. Government now becomes its moral accomplice.
"Soft money, it is said, makes for soft heads. The hundreds of millions in soft money members of the Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have poured into the Beltway parties may buy seats; but they may yet be paid for, not only in lost American jobs, but American blood and the freedom of Taiwan. To argue that the global bureaucrats of the WTO will force reforms in China that the U.S. Government refused to demand is willful self-delusion.
"Today, I thank God I am not a Republican."
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