FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 21, 1999
BUCHANAN PLEADS TO GOP:
STAND BY TAIWAN
DES MOINES, IA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J.
Buchanan released the following statement:
"With the Beijing regime almost daily issuing threats of force and
violence against the people of Taiwan, it is imperative that the
Republican Party in Congress not sign on to the Clinton/Gore policy of
appeasement.
"The special trade privileges that have allowed Beijing to pile up $274
billion in trade surpluses this decade, at our expense, should be
suspended.
"It is that massive trade surplus and the hard currency it has provided
that has enabled Communist China to buy and build weapons to put the
island and people of Taiwan in mortal peril.
"According to the Washington Times (7/21), the Clinton administration is
considering a cut-off in the sale of defensive weapons to Taiwan. If
true, that would be an act of treachery utterly un-American in character."
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