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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 Inter-
national Relations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States
Government should conduct a policy review of its rela-
tions with the People’s Republic of China.
Whereas the Department of State released, on February 26,
2001, its annual Country Report on Human Rights Prac-
tices 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 ob-
serves 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 Re-
public of China held against their will 24 members of the
United States military who, in accordance with inter-
national 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 mis-
siles, 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 af-
fairs 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
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the President of the United States and his
advisors should be commended for their success and
the diplomatic skill with which they negotiated the
safe return of the 24 American crew members; and
(2) the United States Government should con-
duct a policy review of the nature of its relations
with the Government of the People’s Republic of
China in light of these recent events.
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