Dana Rohrabacher: “the House will soon vote on most- favored-nation status with China. That means should we have a trading relationship…”

“the House will soon vote on most- favored-nation status with China. That means should we have a trading relationship with this Communist dictatorship that violates the rights of its people, is belligerent against its neighbors, is helping in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and a country that is now run by a group so hostile to the United States that it could well become our enemy in the future and possibly an enemy at war with the United States of America unless we do something? Mr. Speaker, this is not the time to grant that type of trading status, that grants this dictatorial regime the same status as we grant England and France and other democratic countries. We should put our foot down and say until we see changes in human rights and in their aggressive policies toward their neighbors and the stealing of American technology, we will not grant them this right. And if we do that, we will be protecting the interests of the people of the United States of America and we will be securing our future, because tyrants understand action. They do not understand platitudes, and up to this point they have only heard platitudes about human rights from the United States of America. ____________________”