Jack Kingston: “Mr. Chairman, I wanted to, number one, stress to all of those who may be listening that the United States embargo allows…”

“Mr. Chairman, I wanted to, number one, stress to all of those who may be listening that the United States embargo allows the donation of food, clothing and medicine to the Cuban people. The embargo also allows the controlled sale of medicine, medical supplies and agriculture products to Cuba. It is extremely important for us to remember that, because people keep saying and acting like that is not the case. We have taken allowance to put in humanitarian considerations in there, which is far more than we get out of Castro. Now, a lot of people keep talking about China, and I just returned from China 2 weeks ago, and want to talk a little bit about the difference between Communist China and Communist Cuba. Number one, they have a precedent. They do have two systems under one nation. Hong Kong, they have left the capitalism in Hong Kong. China has not infiltrated that and messed it up. Secondly, they can also look across the waters and see Taiwan, which they consider still part of China and a province, but they understand how capitalism works because of Taiwan and because of Hong Kong.”