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Patrick Leahy: “People have been shot in the streets in China, and held in prisons in China, and tortured and executed in China; are we…”

On the recordJune 30, 1999
People have been shot in the streets in China, and held in prisons in China, and tortured and executed in China; are we allowed to go and visit there without having to get a license from our country to do so?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Discussing human rights abuses in China.

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