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On the recordJune 24, 1996
We know that for a fact, and we have pictures of it, taking place as late as February of this year. Last, before I get to the last one I would mention, we also know that they were so barbaric that they were trying to sell AK-47's and shoulder missiles to street gangs in L.A., near your area, which would have been used to kill innocent people, and we also know that the People's Liberation Army was behind this and the top leadership of those companies are people who are connected to the leaders in Beijing. I mean they were selling AK-47 weapons, assault weapons and also shoulder missiles that could take a 747 aircraft down coming in at any airport. Last, let me cover something with regard to human rights. In the 1980's, and I know the gentleman was in the Reagan White House in those days, writing speeches for President Reagan. In the 1980's, the gentleman knows that no Member of Congress would have ever come to the floor of the House, no person in the Reagan administration would have ever gotten up and said that we should have granted MFN to the Soviet Union when Sakharov was under house arrest in Gorky and Scharansky was in perm camp 35. No member of the administration, no Member of Congress on either side would have ever been in support of granting MFN for Russia, and now we see the granting of it for China.
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing human rights and arms sales related to China and comparing it to past U.S. policies towards the Soviet Union.

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