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On the recordMay 22, 2000
this is the beginning of a lively debate that will take place over the next few days. The administration is attempting to inject this idea of this being a national security vote. Well, look at the kinds of high technology which we are buying now from China as a result of a $70 billion trade deficit where we have forgotten the commitment that we should have to this country's security first. We are buying now from China, not shipping there. We are buying turbojet aircraft engines, turbo propeller aircraft engines, radar designed for boat and ship installation, reception apparatus for radio, prison binoculars which are military issue, rifles that eject missiles by release of air and gas, parts for military airplanes and helicopters, parascopes designed to form parts of machines, turbojet aircraft engines, transmitters, bombs, grenades, torpedoes, and similar munitions of war. They are making this now and selling it back to us. What is happening with this country? We are forgetting about our own strategic industrial base.
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Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio

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Discussing national security and trade issues related to technology purchases from China.

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