Dana Rohrabacher: “America is grasping for principles to guide our foreign policy decisionmaking in the post-cold-war world. Let me suggest…”

“America is grasping for principles to guide our foreign policy decisionmaking in the post-cold-war world. Let me suggest two simple standards. We should be for freedom, and we should be against aggression. The current administration has decoupled any discussion about trade with any consideration of human rights. This is wrong, and it does not work. By winking at the dictator in Beijing, we have encouraged that gangster regime to go on to even further criminal activities. I am placing into the Record an editorial of the Wall Street Journal detailing the results of an alignment between the gangster regimes in Peking, China, and in Burma. As for America, we should be on the side of those who are struggling for freedom in Burma and China. In the long run, it is not only what is right but it is what will work for the betterment of the entire world.”