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107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 121

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Government should

conduct a policy review of its relations with the People’s Republic of China.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 1, 2001

Mr. HOEFFEL (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. TANCREDO, Ms.

KAPTUR, Mr. SHERMAN, and Mr. ABERCROMBIE) submitted the following

concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States

Government should conduct a policy review of its relations with the People’s Republic of China.

Whereas the Department of State released, on February 26,

2001, its annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices and named the Government of the People’s Republic

of China a perpetrator of human rights abuses, stating

that ‘‘the [Chinese] government continue[s] to commit

widespread and well-documented human rights abuses, in

violation of internationally accepted norms’’;

Whereas the Country Report on Human Rights Practices observes that the Government of the People’s Republic of

China has intensified its controls on religious practice
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and freedom of expression in Tibet and other areas of

China;

Whereas the Country Report on Human Rights Practices

notes that thousands of leaders from the religious group

Falun Gong have been imprisoned and that thousands of

Falun Gong practitioners have remained in detention,

have been sentenced to reeducation-through-labor camps,

or have been incarcerated in mental institutions, and that

approximately 100 or more Falun Gong practitioners

died as a result of torture and mistreatment in custody;

Whereas the Government of the Peoples Republic of China

has continued to hold the United States Navy EP–3E

Aries II reconnaissance aircraft that made an emergency

landing on the Chinese island of Hainan on April 1,

2001;

Whereas for eleven days the Government of the People’s Republic of China held against their will 24 members of the

United States military who, in accordance with international law, made an emergency landing in the EP–E3

military aircraft on the island of Hainan on April 1,

2001;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China

has instigated increasingly provocative military actions

towards Taiwan by steadily expanding its arsenal of missiles, aircraft, submarines and destroyers intended to

threaten Taiwan, including hundreds of new short-range

ballistic missiles targeted at Taiwan; and

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China

is seeking to play an increased role in international affairs through enhanced trade relations with the United

States and other nations through its application for full
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membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)

and other cultural interactions such as its bid to host the

2008 Olympics: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that—

3 (1) the President of the United States and his

4 advisors should be commended for their success and

5 the diplomatic skill with which they negotiated the

6 safe return of the 24 American crew members; and

7 (2) the United States Government should con8 duct a policy review of the nature of its relations

9 with the Government of the People’s Republic of

10 China in light of these recent events.

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