FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 5, 1999
BUCHANAN CALLS FOR
"TIME FOR TRUTH" ABOUT CHINA
Denounces Policy of Appeasement on Eve of Premier Zhu Rongji's Visit
Full text of speech
SAN FRANCISCO -- In an address to the Commonwealth Club of California today,
Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan--one of ten surviving members
of the 1972 official U.S. delegation that opened China--called for "a time
for truth about the People's Republic of China and about the China policy
of this White House." Following are excerpts from his address:
- "We cannot ignore China and we cannot isolate China . . . . But it is a
time for truth about the People's Republic of China, and about the China
policy of this White House. The Clinton policy of 'constructive engagem
ent' has degenerated into craven appeasement and willful self-delusion;
and that policy is leading to a confrontation, and possible conflict, with
China."
- "Mr. Clinton's decision not to permit human rights outrages to
interfere with trade has proven a shameful capitulation. Americans are
being true neither to themselves nor their heritage as champions of
freedom and decency is they engage in business-as-usual with tyrants who
trample upon all that we profess to hold sacred. . . .It is time to put
country before commerce, and let America be America again."
- "U.S. trade policy today is impossible to defend in terms of U.S.
strategic interests. . . .When Beijing targets nuclear missiles on the
United States, we call China our 'strategic partner'. . . .When Chinese
Communists trample on the human rights of a billion people, they are
rewarded with a $57 billion trade surplus."
- "For the Administration which has all its political capital wagered on
the China card, there may be no turning back. But it is time for Congress
to renounce a Clinton policy that is leading to confrontation, while it
strengthens Beijing for that confrontation."
- "No one wants confrontation or conflict with China; but Beijing needs
to be jolted into an awareness that threats against Taiwan or our friends
in the Pacific, mean an end to U.S. economic engagement and a closing of
the U.S. market."
Speech To Address U.S.-Sino Relations Prior To
Premier Zhu Rongji's Visit To Washington
Date: Monday, April 5, 1999
Time: 11:45 AM Pacific -- Luncheon
12:30 PM -- Speech, Followed By Q & A
Location: The Commonwealth Club of California
Hilton Hotel - Continental Ballroom
333 O'Farrell Street at Taylor
San Francisco, CA
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