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Patrick Moynihan: “If we found a Chinese gunboat on the Missouri, we might say: I think you got your charts wrong here. This is U.S.…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 2000
If we found a Chinese gunboat on the Missouri, we might say: I think you got your charts wrong here. This is U.S. waters, not yours. It is easy for us to forget because there was no indignity done us. It is not easy for them. I am not asking any sympathy for them, I am just giving a fact. If we suddenly break into that appearing hostile mode of wanting hegemony and all that, I shall be happy to have been out of this by then because we will be asking for terrible events: Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India--let's not do this. Let's do the sensible thing we have been trying to do since the day we began the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program in 1934. My colleague is bringing it to a culmination. I hope he is proud.
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Patrick Moynihan
Illinois
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Discussing U.S. foreign policy and trade relations with China.

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