Wolf, Hon. Frank, a U.S. Representative from Virginia; Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

Secretary Yun, what's the position of the administration on the actions that the EU just took?

I understand the administration's present policy.

I think that a number of people here in the political process tend to, quite frankly, overreact to the word 'sanctions' in terms of lifting sanctions.

The bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is, we can have the most innovation, best protected intellectual property possible in the United States; but unless it is protected around the world in this international global environment in which we are…

I'm never going to be Cal Ripken anyway in terms of consecutive votes, so I guess if I'm going to miss one this is a good reason to be missing it.

Right. So they could be separated out if an Executive decision were made on these other areas you're talking about.

Just to be clear in our understanding, that conceivably could be done and still separate out the bad actors that you were discussing in your testimony?

My impression was this is not the situation you would have in many of these other historic evolutions, where you have the desire of the people on top simply to perpetuate a system of the past.

I think that we are pretty good at working with opposition groups, as well we should be, in many parts of the world in order to help create a better understanding of democratic systems.

The subcommittee will come to order. This afternoon the East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee will examine U.S. policy toward Burma.

If we don't send a hard message on these issues, I think we will find it increasingly difficult to combat it at a later stage when sort of the horse is out of the barn.

I think we should be more open-handed. I think we should move more quickly, not because I approve of the people who have run that government for the last 40 years, but because I want to see them ushered out the door more rapidly.

I think that the two most important factors right now from my own personal point of view would be to get as many people from the international community to interact with the average citizen on the street in a positive way...

It has not passed through, but at some point this will move along far enough that perhaps further intervention will do harm.

It seems like those are the three major buckets.

I guess I might take one exception with that.

I would say that we have zero tolerance for that. We are going to continue our audits and reviews to ensure, with additional training of scheduling practices, that this is not occurring.