On the recordMarch 16, 1994
our trade deficit with China is now over $25 billion, the second biggest deficit we have. Year after year, Congress debates, then grants most-favored-nation trade status to China. Now, here is what China does every year for this distinction: They violate human rights and shoot down their own students; they have dumped products in our market illegally; they deny American products from being sold in China; they sell tanks and missiles to terrorist nations who would like to destroy America. Ladies and gentlemen, what do we do to these butchers on Tiananmen Square? We reward them. Beam me up. Their average wage is 17 cents an hour. This is not free trade, Congress; this is slave trade, and we are losing, we are losing.
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