Dan Burton: “What kind of checks and balances will we have on China if they get permanent trade status? We have been reviewing them…”

“What kind of checks and balances will we have on China if they get permanent trade status? We have been reviewing them once a year and, because of that, they know that once a year we are going to vote on it and we can withdraw that favorable status that they have. They have 35 to 40 percent of our market. Thirty-five to 40 percent of their exports come to the United States. They are not going to cut off their nose to spite their face if we do not go along with them on this permanent trade status today. It means too much to them. What I want Members to do right now is to look back and see what has happened in China just recently and what they have been doing. They stole our nuclear secrets. They were involved in espionage at Los Alamos and Livermore Laboratories and they now have the ability to kill 50 million people in this country with one missile on a mobile launch vehicle with 10 W-88 warheads. They did not have that before. This just happened recently. Do my colleagues remember Tiananmen Square? There are 10 million people in slave labor camps making tennis shoes and other things for nothing but a bowl of gruel a day.”