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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 89

To state the policy of the United States with respect to certain activities

of the People’s Republic of China, to impose certain restrictions and

limitations on activities of and with respect to the People’s Republic

of China, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JANUARY 19, 1999

Mr. HUTCHINSON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and

referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

A BILL

To state the policy of the United States with respect to

certain activities of the People’s Republic of China, to

impose certain restrictions and limitations on activities

of and with respect to the People’s Republic of China,

and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘People’s Republic of

5 China Policy Act of 1999’’.
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1 TITLE I—TRAVEL AND ACTIVI2 TIES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS

3 SEC. 101. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF POLICY.

4 It is the sense of Congress that—

5 (1) the President should make freedom of reli6 gion one of the major objectives of United States

7 foreign policy with respect to the People’s Republic

8 of China;

9 (2) as part of this policy, the Department of

10 State should raise in every relevant bilateral and

11 multilateral forum the issue of individuals impris12 oned, detained, confined, or otherwise harassed by

13 the Government of the People’s Republic of China

14 on religious grounds;

15 (3) in its communications with the Government

16 of the People’s Republic of China, the Department

17 of State should provide specific names of individuals

18 of concern and request a complete and timely re19 sponse from that government regarding the individ20 uals’ whereabouts and condition, the charges against

21 them, and sentence imposed; and

22 (4) the goal of these official communications

23 should be the expeditious release of all religious pris24 oners in China and Tibet and the end of the policy

25 and practice of the Government of the People’s Re-
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1 public of China of harassing and repressing religious

2 believers.

3 SEC. 102. CERTAIN OFFICIALS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

4 OF CHINA INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE VISAS

5 AND EXCLUDED FROM ADMISSION.

6 (a) REQUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding any other pro7 vision of law, any national of the People’s Republic of

8 China described in subsection (b), other than the head of

9 state, the head of government, and cabinet level ministers,

10 shall be ineligible to receive visas and shall be excluded

11 from admission into the United States.

12 (b) COVERED NATIONALS.—A national referred to in

13 subsection (a) is any military or civilian official or em14 ployee of the Government of the People’s Republic of

15 China who carried out or directed the carrying out of any

16 of the following policies or practices:

17 (1) Formulating, drafting, or implementing re18 pressive religious policies.

19 (2) Imprisoning, detaining, or harassing indi20 viduals on religious grounds.

21 (3) Promoting or participating in policies or

22 practices which hinder religious activities or the free

23 expression of religious beliefs.
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1 (c) WAIVER.—The President may waive the require2 ment in subsection (a) with respect to an individual de3 scribed in such subsection if the President—

4 (1) determines that it is vital to the national in5 terest to do so; and

6 (2) provides written notification to the appro7 priate congressional committees containing a jus8 tification for the waiver.

9 (d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

10 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con11 gressional committees’’ means the Committee on Foreign

12 Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Inter13 national Relations of the House of Representatives.

14 (e) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect

15 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

16 TITLE II—FORCED ABORTION

17 SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.

18 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Forced Abortion Con19 demnation Act’’.

20 SEC. 202. FINDINGS.

21 Congress makes the following findings:

22 (1) Forced abortion was rightly denounced as a

23 crime against humanity by the Nuremberg War

24 Crimes Tribunal.
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1 (2) For over 15 years there have been frequent

2 and credible reports of forced abortion and forced

3 sterilization in connection with the population con4 trol policies of the People’s Republic of China. These

5 reports indicate the following:

6 (A) Although it is the stated position of

7 the politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

8 that forced abortion and forced sterilization

9 have no role in the population control program,

10 in fact the Communist Chinese Government en11 courages both forced abortion and forced steri12 lization through a combination of strictly en13 forced birth quotas and immunity for local pop14 ulation control officials who engage in coercion.

15 Officials acknowledge that there have been in16 stances of forced abortions and sterilization,

17 and no evidence has been made available to

18 suggest that the perpetrators have been pun19 ished.

20 (B) People’s Republic of China population

21 control officials, in cooperation with employers

22 and works unit officials, routinely monitor wom23 en’s menstrual cycles and subject women who

24 conceive without government authorization to

25 extreme psychological pressure, to harsh eco-
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1 nomic sanctions, including unpayable fines and

2 loss of employment, and often to physical force.

3 (C) Official sanctions for giving birth to

4 unauthorized children include fines in amounts

5 several times larger than the per capita annual

6 incomes of residents of the People’s Republic of

7 China. In Fujian, for example, the average fine

8 is estimated to be twice a family’s gross annual

9 income. Families which cannot pay the fine may

10 be subject to confiscation and destruction of

11 their homes and personal property.

12 (D) Especially harsh punishments have

13 been inflicted on those whose resistance is moti14 vated by religion. For example, according to a

15 1995 Amnesty International report, the Catho16 lic inhabitants of two villages in Hebei Province

17 were subjected to population control under the

18 slogan ‘‘better to have more graves than one

19 more child’’. Enforcement measures included

20 torture, sexual abuse, and the detention of re21 sisters’ relatives as hostages.

22 (E) Forced abortions in Communist China

23 often have taken place in the very late stages

24 of pregnancy.
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1 (F) Since 1994 forced abortion and steri2 lization have been used in Communist China

3 not only to regulate the number of children, but

4 also to eliminate those who are regarded as de5 fective in accordance with the official eugenic

6 policy known as the ‘‘Natal and Health Care

7 Law’’.

8 SEC. 203. DENIAL OF ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF

9 PERSONS IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF

10 CHINA ENGAGED IN ESTABLISHMENT OR EN11 FORCEMENT OF FORCED ABORTION OR

12 STERILIZATION POLICY.

13 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State may not

14 issue any visa to, and the Attorney General may not admit

15 to the United States, any national of the People’s Republic

16 of China, including any official of the Communist Party

17 or the Government of the People’s Republic of China and

18 its regional, local, and village authorities who the Sec19 retary finds, based on credible information, to have been

20 directly involved in the establishment or enforcement of

21 population control policies forcing a woman to undergo an

22 abortion against her free choice or forcing a man or

23 woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free

24 choice.
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1 (b) EXCEPTIONS.—The prohibitions in subsection (a)

2 shall not apply in the case a national who is the head of

3 state, the head of government, or a cabinet level minister.

4 SEC. 204. WAIVER.

5 The President may waive the prohibitions contained

6 in section 203(a) with respect to a national of the People’s

7 Republic of China if the President—

8 (1) determines that it is in the national interest

9 of the United States to do so; and

10 (2) provides written notification to Congress

11 containing a justification for the waiver.

12 TITLE III—HUMAN RIGHTS

13 SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.

14 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Political Freedom in

15 China Act of 1999’’.

16 SEC. 302. FINDINGS.

17 Congress makes the following findings:

18 (1) Congress concurs in the following conclu19 sions of the United States Department of State on

20 human rights in the People’s Republic of China in

21 1996:

22 (A) The People’s Republic of China is ‘‘an

23 authoritarian state’’ in which ‘‘citizens lack the

24 freedom to peacefully express opposition to the

25 party-led political system and the right to
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1 change their national leaders or form of govern2 ment’’.

3 (B) The Government of the People’s Re4 public of China has ‘‘continued to commit wide5 spread and well-documented human rights

6 abuses, in violation of internationally accepted

7 norms, stemming from the authorities’ intoler8 ance of dissent, fear of unrest, and the absence

9 or inadequacy of laws protecting basic free10 doms’’.

11 (C) ‘‘Abuses include torture and mistreat12 ment of prisoners, forced confessions, and arbi13 trary and incommunicado detention’’.

14 (D) ‘‘Prison conditions remained harsh

15 [and] [t]he Government continued severe re16 strictions on freedom of speech, the press, as17 sembly, association, religion, privacy, and work18 er rights’’.

19 (E) ‘‘Although the Government denies that

20 it holds political prisoners, the number of per21 sons detained or serving sentences for

22 ‘counterrevolutionary crimes’ or ‘crimes against

23 the state’, or for peaceful political or religious

24 activities are believed to number in the thou25 sands’’.
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1 (F) ‘‘Nonapproved religious groups, includ2 ing Protestant and Catholic groups * * * expe3 rienced intensified repression’’.

4 (G) ‘‘Serious human rights abuses persist

5 in minority areas, including Tibet, Xinjiang,

6 and Inner Mongolia[, and] [c]ontrols on religion

7 and on other fundamental freedoms in these

8 areas have also intensified’’.

9 (H) ‘‘Overall in 1996, the authorities

10 stepped up efforts to cut off expressions of pro11 test or criticism. All public dissent against the

12 party and government was effectively silenced

13 by intimidation, exile, the imposition of prison

14 terms, administrative detention, or house ar15 rest. No dissidents were known to be active at

16 year’s end.’’.

17 (2) In addition to the Department of State,

18 credible independent human rights organizations

19 have documented an increase in repression in China,

20 and effective destruction of the dissident movement

21 through the arrest and sentencing of pro-democracy

22 and human rights activists not already in prison or

23 exile.

24 (3) Among such activists are the following:
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1 (A) Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai, and Qin

2 Yongmin, who were sentenced to 13 years, 11

3 years, and 12 years, respectively, for their par4 ticipation in forming the China Democracy

5 Party.

6 (B) Li Hai, who was sentenced to 9 years

7 in prison on December 18, 1996, for gathering

8 information on the victims of the 1989 crack9 down, which according to the court’s verdict

10 constituted ‘‘state secrets’’.

11 (C) Liu Nianchun, an independent labor

12 organizer, who was sentenced to 3 years of ‘‘re13 education through labor’’ on July 4, 1996, due

14 to his activities in connection with a petition

15 campaign calling for human rights reforms.

16 (D) Ngodrup Phuntsog, a Tibetan na17 tional, who was arrested in Tibet in 1987 im18 mediately after he returned from a 2-year trip

19 to India, where the Tibetan government in exile

20 is located, and following a secret trial was con21 victed by the Government of the People’s Re22 public of China of espionage on behalf of the

23 ‘‘Ministry of Security of the Dalai clique’’.
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1 (4) Many political prisoners in China are suffer2 ing from poor conditions and ill-treatment leading to

3 serious medical and health problems, including—

4 (A) Gao Yu, a journalist honored by

5 UNESCO in May 1997, who was sentenced to

6 6 years in prison in November 1994 and has a

7 heart condition; and

8 (B) Chen Longde, a leading human rights

9 advocate now serving a 3-year reeducation

10 through labor sentence imposed without trial in

11 August 1995, who has reportedly been subject

12 to repeated beatings and electric shocks at a

13 labor camp for refusing to confess his guilt.

14 (5) The People’s Republic of China, as a mem15 ber of the United Nations, is expected to abide by

16 the provisions of the Universal Declaration of

17 Human Rights.

18 (6) The People’s Republic of China is a party

19 to numerous international human rights conventions,

20 including the Convention Against Torture and Other

21 Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punish22 ment.

23 SEC. 303. CONDUCT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.

24 (a) RELEASE OF PRISONERS.—The Secretary of

25 State, in all official meetings with the Government of the
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1 People’s Republic of China, should request the immediate

2 and unconditional release of Ngodrup Phuntsog and other

3 prisoners of conscience in Tibet, as well as in the People’s

4 Republic of China.

5 (b) ACCESS TO PRISONS.—The Secretary of State

6 should seek access for international humanitarian organi7 zations to Drapchi prison and other prisons in Tibet, as

8 well as in the People’s Republic of China, in order to en9 sure that prisoners are not being mistreated and are re10 ceiving necessary medical treatment.

11 (c) DIALOGUE ON FUTURE OF TIBET.—The Sec12 retary of State, in all official meetings with the Govern13 ment of the People’s Republic of China, should call on that

14 government to begin serious discussions with the Dalai

15 Lama or his representatives, without preconditions, on the

16 future of Tibet.

17 SEC. 304. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR ADDI18 TIONAL PERSONNEL AT DIPLOMATIC POSTS

19 TO MONITOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PEO20 PLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

21 There is authorized to be appropriated to support

22 personnel in the United States Embassies in Beijing and

23 Kathmandu, as well as the American consulates in

24 Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Chengdu, and Hong

25 Kong, in order to monitor political repression in the Peo-
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1 ple’s Republic of China, $2,200,000 for fiscal year 2000

2 and $2,200,000 for fiscal year 2001.

3 SEC. 305. DEMOCRACY BUILDING IN CHINA.

4 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR

5 NED.—In addition to such sums as are otherwise author6 ized to be appropriated for the National Endowment for

7 Democracy for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, there is au8 thorized to be appropriated for the National Endowment

9 for Democracy $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 and

10 $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, which shall be available

11 to promote democracy, civil society, and the development

12 of the rule of law in China.

13 (b) EAST ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL DEMOCRACY

14 FUND.—The Secretary of State shall use funds available

15 in the East Asia-Pacific Regional Democracy Fund to pro16 vide grants to nongovernmental organizations to promote

17 democracy, civil society, and the development of the rule

18 of law in China.

19 SEC. 306. ANNUAL REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA.

20 (a) REPORTS.—Not later than March 30, 2000, and

21 every year thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit

22 to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and

23 the Committee on International Relations of the House

24 of Representatives a report on human rights matters in

25 China during the preceding year, including information on
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1 religious persecution, the development of democratic insti2 tutions, and the rule of law. Each report shall provide in3 formation on such matters in each region of China.

4 (b) PRISONER INFORMATION REGISTRY.—(1) The

5 Secretary of State shall establish and maintain a registry

6 which shall provide information on all political prisoners,

7 prisoners of conscience, and prisoners of faith in China.

8 The registry shall be known as the ‘‘Prisoner Information

9 Registry for China’’.

10 (2) Information in the registry required by paragraph

11 (1) shall include information on the charges, judicial proc12 esses, administrative actions, uses of forced labor,

13 incidences of torture, lengths of imprisonment, physical

14 and health conditions, and other matters associated with

15 the incarceration of prisoners referred to in paragraph (1)

16 in China.

17 (3) The Secretary of State may make funds available

18 to nongovernmental organizations presently engaged in

19 monitoring activities regarding political prisoners in China

20 in order to assist in the creation and maintenance of the

21 registry required by paragraph (1).
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1 SEC. 307. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ESTABLISH2 MENT OF A COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND

3 COOPERATION IN ASIA.

4 It is the sense of Congress that Congress, the Presi5 dent, and the Secretary of State should work with the gov6 ernments of other countries to establish a Commission on

7 Security and Cooperation in Asia which would be modeled

8 after the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Eu9 rope.

10 SEC. 308. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING DEMOCRACY

11 IN HONG KONG.

12 It is the sense of Congress that the people of Hong

13 Kong should continue to have the right and ability to free14 ly elect their legislative representatives.

15 SEC. 309. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ORGAN HAR16 VESTING AND TRANSPLANTING IN THE PEO17 PLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

18 It is the sense of Congress that—

19 (1) the Government of the People’s Republic of

20 China should stop the practice of harvesting and

21 transplanting organs for profit from prisoners that

22 it executes;

23 (2) the Government of the People’s Republic of

24 China should be strongly condemned for such organ

25 harvesting and transplanting practice;
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1 (3) the President should bar from entry into

2 the United States any and all officials of the Gov3 ernment of the People’s Republic of China known to

4 be directly involved in such organ harvesting and

5 transplanting practice;

6 (4) individuals determined to be participating in

7 or otherwise facilitating the sale of organs harvested

8 through such practice in the United States should be

9 prosecuted to the fullest possible extent of the law;

10 and

11 (5) the appropriate officials in the United

12 States should interview individuals, including doc13 tors, who may have knowledge of such organ har14 vesting and transplanting practice.

15 TITLE IV—CONCESSIONAL

16 LOANS

17 SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.

18 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Communist China

19 Subsidy Reduction Act of 1999’’.

20 SEC. 402. FINDINGS.

21 Congress makes the following findings:

22 (1) The People’s Republic of China has enjoyed

23 ready access to international capital through com24 mercial loans, direct investment, sales of securities,

25 bond sales, and foreign aid.
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1 (2) Regarding international commercial lending,

2 the People’s Republic of China had $48,000,000,000

3 in loans outstanding from private creditors in 1995.

4 (3) Regarding international direct investment,

5 international direct investment in the People’s Re6 public of China from 1993 through 1995 totaled

7 $97,151,000,000, and in 1996 alone totaled

8 $47,000,000,000.

9 (4) Regarding investment in Chinese securities,

10 the aggregate value of outstanding Chinese securi11 ties currently held by Chinese nationals and foreign

12 persons is $175,000,000,000, and from 1993

13 through 1995 foreign persons invested

14 $10,540,000,000 in Chinese stocks.

15 (5) Regarding investment in Chinese bonds, en16 tities controlled by the Government of the People’s

17 Republic of China have issued 75 bonds since 1988,

18 including 36 dollar-denominated bond offerings val19 ued at more than $6,700,000,000, and the total

20 value of long-term Chinese bonds outstanding as of

21 January 1, 1996, was $11,709,000,000.

22 (6) Regarding international assistance, the Peo23 ple’s Republic of China received almost

24 $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid grants and an addi25 tional $1,566,000,000 in technical assistance grants
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1 from 1993 through 1995, and in 1995 received

2 $5,540,000,000 in bilateral assistance loans, includ3 ing concessional aid, export credits, and related as4 sistance.

5 (7) Regarding international financial

6 institutions—

7 (A) despite the People’s Republic of Chi8 na’s access to international capital and world fi9 nancial markets, international financial institu10 tions have annually provided it with more than

11 $4,000,000,000 in loans in recent years,

12 amounting to almost a third of the loan com13 mitments of the Asian Development Bank and

14 17.1 percent of the loan approvals by the Inter15 national Bank for Reconstruction and Develop16 ment in 1995; and

17 (B) the People’s Republic of China bor18 rows more from the International Bank for Re19 construction and Development and the Asian

20 Development Bank than any other country, and

21 loan commitments from those institutions to the

22 People’s Republic of China quadrupled from

23 $1,100,000,000 in 1985 to $4,300,000,000 by

24 1995.
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1 SEC. 403. OPPOSITION OF UNITED STATES TO

2 CONCESSIONAL LOANS TO THE PEOPLE’S RE3 PUBLIC OF CHINA.

4 Title XV of the International Financial Institutions

5 Act (22 U.S.C. 262o–262o–1) is amended by adding at

6 the end the following:

7 ‘‘SEC. 1503. OPPOSITION OF UNITED STATES TO

8 CONCESSIONAL LOANS TO THE PEOPLE’S RE9 PUBLIC OF CHINA.

10 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury

11 shall instruct the United States Executive Directors at

12 each international financial institution (as defined in sec13 tion 1701(c)(2)) to use the voice and vote of the United

14 States to oppose the provision by the institution of

15 concessional loans to the People’s Republic of China, any

16 citizen or national of the People’s Republic of China, or

17 any entity established in the People’s Republic of China.

18 ‘‘(b) CONCESSIONAL LOANS DEFINED.—As used in

19 subsection (a), the term ‘concessional loans’ means loans

20 with highly subsidized interest rates, grace periods for re21 payment of 5 years or more, and maturities of 20 years

22 or more.’’.
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1 SEC. 404. PRINCIPLES THAT SHOULD BE ADHERED TO BY

2 ANY UNITED STATES NATIONAL CONDUCTING

3 AN INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION PROJECT IN

4 THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

5 (a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to

6 create principles governing the conduct of industrial co7 operation projects of United States nationals in the Peo8 ple’s Republic of China.

9 (b) STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES.—It is the sense of

10 Congress that any United States national conducting an

11 industrial cooperation project in the People’s Republic of

12 China should:

13 (1) Suspend the use of any goods, wares, arti14 cles, or merchandise that the United States national

15 has reason to believe were mined, produced, or man16 ufactured, in whole or in part, by convict labor or

17 forced labor, and refuse to use forced labor in the

18 industrial cooperation project.

19 (2) Seek to ensure that political or religious

20 views, sex, ethnic or national background, involve21 ment in political activities or nonviolent demonstra22 tions, or association with suspected or known dis23 sidents will not prohibit hiring, lead to harassment,

24 demotion, or dismissal, or in any way affect the sta25 tus or terms of employment in the industrial co26 operation project. The United States national should
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1 not discriminate in terms or conditions of employ2 ment in the industrial cooperation project against

3 persons with past records of arrest or internal exile

4 for nonviolent protest or membership in unofficial

5 organizations committed to nonviolence.

6 (3) Ensure that methods of production used in

7 the industrial cooperation project do not pose an un8 necessary physical danger to workers and neighbor9 ing populations or property, and that the industrial

10 cooperation project does not unnecessarily risk harm

11 to the surrounding environment; and consult with

12 community leaders regarding environmental protec13 tion with respect to the industrial cooperation

14 project.

15 (4) Strive to establish a private business enter16 prise when involved in an industrial cooperation

17 project with the Government of the People’s Repub18 lic of China or other state entity.

19 (5) Discourage any Chinese military presence

20 on the premises of any industrial cooperation

21 projects which involve dual-use technologies.

22 (6) Undertake to promote freedom of associa23 tion and assembly among the employees of the

24 United States national. The United States national

25 should protest any infringement by the Government
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1 of the People’s Republic of China of these freedoms

2 to the International Labor Organization office in

3 Beijing.

4 (7) Provide the Department of State with infor5 mation relevant to the Department’s efforts to col6 lect information on prisoners for the purposes of the

7 Prisoner Information Registry, and for other report8 ing purposes.

9 (8) Discourage or undertake to prevent compul10 sory political indoctrination programs from taking

11 place on the premises of the industrial cooperation

12 project.

13 (9) Promote freedom of expression, including

14 the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information

15 and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either

16 orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or

17 through any media. To this end, the United States

18 national should raise with appropriate authorities of

19 the Government of the People’s Republic of China

20 concerns about restrictions on the free flow of infor21 mation.

22 (10) Undertake to prevent harassment of work23 ers who, consistent with the United Nations World

24 Population Plan of Action, decide freely and respon25 sibly the number and spacing of their children; and
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1 prohibit compulsory population control activities on

2 the premises of the industrial cooperation project.

3 (c) PROMOTION OF PRINCIPLES BY OTHER NA4 TIONS.—The Secretary of State shall forward a copy of

5 the principles set forth in subsection (b) to the member

6 nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

7 Development and encourage such nations to promote prin8 ciples similar to these principles.

9 (d) REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT.—

10 (1) IN GENERAL.—Each United States national

11 conducting an industrial cooperation project in the

12 People’s Republic of China shall register with the

13 Secretary of State and indicate that the United

14 States national agrees to implement the principles

15 set forth in subsection (b). No fee shall be required

16 for registration under this subsection.

17 (2) PREFERENCE FOR PARTICIPATION IN

18 TRADE MISSIONS.—The Secretary of Commerce

19 shall—

20 (A) consult the register required under

21 paragraph (1) before the selection of private

22 sector participants in any form of trade mission

23 to China; and

24 (B) undertake to involve those United

25 States nationals that have registered their
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1 adoption of the principles set forth in sub2 section (b).

3 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:

4 (1) The term ‘‘industrial cooperation project’’

5 refers to a for-profit activity the business operations

6 of which employ more than 25 individuals or have

7 assets greater than $25,000.

8 (2) The term ‘‘United States national’’

9 means—

10 (A) a citizen or national of the United

11 States or a permanent resident of the United

12 States; and

13 (B) a corporation, partnership, or other

14 business association organized under the laws

15 of the United States, any State or territory

16 thereof, the District of Columbia, the Common17 wealth of Puerto Rico, or the Commonwealth of

18 the Northern Mariana Islands.

19 SEC. 405. PROMOTION OF EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, SCI20 ENTIFIC, AGRICULTURAL, MILITARY, LEGAL,

21 POLITICAL, AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGES BE22 TWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA.

23 (a) EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES

24 AND CHINA.—Agencies of the United States Government

25 which engage in educational, cultural, scientific, agricul-
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1 tural, military, legal, political, and artistic exchanges shall

2 endeavor to initiate or expand such exchange programs

3 with regard to China.

4 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con5 gress that a Federally-chartered not-for-profit organiza6 tion should be established to fund exchanges between the

7 United States and China through private donations.

8 TITLE V—RADIO FREE ASIA

9 SEC. 501. RADIO FREE ASIA.

10 (a) REPEAL OF LIMITATION ON GRANT AMOUNT OR

11 GRANT USE.—Subsection (d) of section 309 of the United

12 States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (title III

13 of Public Law 103–236; 22 U.S.C. 6208) is amended—

14 (1) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5); and

15 (2) by redesignating paragraph (6) as para16 graph (4).

17 (b) REPEAL OF ADDITIONAL GRANT LIMITATION.—

18 Paragraph (2) of that subsection is amended by striking

19 ‘‘, and shall further’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Sep20 tember 30, 1999.’’ and inserting a period.

21 (c) REPEAL OF SUNSET ON GRANT AUTHORITY.—

22 That section is further amended—

23 (1) by striking subsection (g); and

24 (2) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as

25 subsections (g) and (h), respectively.
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1 (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Subsection (c) of

2 that section is amended—

3 (1) in paragraph (1)—

4 (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and

5 (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B)

6 and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respec7 tively; and

8 (2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4).

9 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is

10 authorized to be appropriated for ‘‘Radio Free Asia’’,

11 $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 and $30,000,000 for fis12 cal year 2001.

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