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On the recordJune 27, 1996
most-favored-nation status for China giving trade advantages to that Communist dictatorship will cost millions of American jobs. Our trade deficit with China, almost nonexistent only a few years ago, has climbed to $32 billion and is rising, and within a couple of years, it will surpass that of Japan. How much more can China do to its people and how much more can China do to the rest of the world before we finally say ``no'' to MFN? Massacring students in Beijing, selling nuclear technology to rogue nations, slave labor camps, illegally smuggling 2,000 AK-47's into the United States, forcible seizure of Tibetan children from their homes, 12-year-old children in China making toys for 12-year-old children in America and 12-year-old children in China in labor camps making toys for 12-year-old children in America. Mr. Speaker, when will it stop? When will we in this body stop it? Defeat MFN.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Addressing concerns over granting most-favored-nation status to China.

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