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Bill Clinton: No. I found the reports disturbing, and I've asked Ambassador Sasser to raise it with the Chinese authorities. And if…

On the recordJune 26, 1998
No. I found the reports disturbing, and I've asked Ambassador Sasser to raise it with the Chinese authorities. And if true, they represent not China at its best and not China looking forward but looking backward. One of the reasons that I came here was to discuss both privately and publicly issues of personal freedom. So I think it's very important for me to do that. But I think it makes the case--it makes it all the more important that we continue to work with the Chinese and to engage them. Taiwan
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Bill Clinton
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