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On the recordJune 27, 1996
It is clear that our relationship with China is one that is extraordinarily important, and as everybody here acknowledges, extraordinarily complex. There is no doubt we have a lot of contentious issues that surround our relationships. We just heard about some of them: Nuclear proliferation, intellectual property, political and economic freedom for the Chinese people. Mr. Speaker, no one minimizes the difficulties of those issues, but I believe today we can take a great step, perhaps the first real step in years, toward resolving some of these problems.
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Jim Kolbe
Arizona

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Discussing the complexities and importance of U.S.-China relations.

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