FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 26, 1999
BUCHANAN ON CHINA VOTE:
'ASHAMED TO BE A REPUBLICAN'
MCLEAN, VA -- Today, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan
released the following statement:
"The House vote to extend Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade privileges for
China, at the very moment Beijing threatens war on Taiwan and persecutes
yet another religious minority, makes the Clinton-Gore policy of
appeasement a bipartisan affair.
"Rather than stand on principle and sanction the autocrats of Beijing for
arrogant and belligerent conduct, the Republican Party, too, has elected to
grovel. Can anyone believe that a regime that treats its own people with
such cruelty will respect America for this gratuitous kowtow? The
amorality of the transnational corporation has infected the soul of the
Republican Party.
"U.S. policy today puts U.S. sailors at mortal risk in defense of Taiwan,
while a U.S. Business Roundtable grows rich "investing" in China and
selling Beijing supercomputers. In the name of human rights, America
invades Haiti, sanctions Myanmar, and smashes tiny Serbia; yet we shovel
$50 and $60 billion annual trade surpluses into the maw of the largest
tyranny on earth. What hypocrisy.
"Today's House vote makes me ashamed to be a Republican."
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