Asa Hutchinson: “I think to postpone the release of that report indicates that the likelihood that conditions in China have improved over…”

“I think to postpone the release of that report indicates that the likelihood that conditions in China have improved over the course of the last year are remote. The last State Department report, the China country report issued in 1996, was a blistering condemnation of the Chinese Government's repression of their own people and the new wave of the religious persecution that has spread across the country inflicted by this current regime: The administration continues to coddle China despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsibility in nuclear missile technology. Mr. President, those are not my words. Those were the words of then Candidate Bill Clinton in a speech to Georgetown University in December 1991. Then Candidate Clinton was exactly right, and those very words are equally applicable to the policy of appeasement that has been promoted by the Clinton administration. President Clinton, then Candidate Clinton, went on a few months later in March 1992 and said: I don't believe we should extend most favored nation status to China unless they make significant progress in human rights, arms proliferation and fair trade. He was right then. He is wrong now. They have not made significant progress in any of those categories, human rights, arms proliferation or fair trade.”