Thousands of followers of a peaceful Buddhist meditation sect have been jailed or sent to slave labor camps. Scores of Protestant and Catholic ministers, priests and bishops have been imprisoned. Another woman was arrested for telling an American newspaper about the beating death of her mother at the hands of the state secret police. Such abuses are common in China. The communists have embarked on a massive missile program and are rapidly acquiring the weaponry to put at risk our naval forces in the western Pacific.
China is clearly intent on supplanting the United States as the premier power in the region.
China continues, moreover, to be the world's worst offender in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, supplying arms and technology to such rogue states as North Korea, Libya and Iran. For many those were the last words they spoke before they died. And that we have foreign and trade policies that take the words of our Declaration with as much seriousness as the Chinese citizens who have died for those ideas.