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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1993
MR. MORIARTY: If I could just follow up one
more question there, how far can the U.s. go in promoting
the policies that you've outlined in your bill without
crossing the line of intervening in China's internal
sovereignty?
SENATOR MCCONNELL : Well, at the risk of
sounding a little bit immodest, the beauty of my bill was
it's simply built upon the words of the Joint Declaration.
My bill did not go beyond a document the Chinese signed
themselves. And so it seemed to me that there was no
real no sensible reason to oppose the bill since it's
simply built upon the exact language of the Joint
Declaration. So I didn't view that in any way as meddling
in relations between the United Kingdom and China, but
rather building on the agreement that had been signed.
MS. TINLINE: What's your feeling amongst your
Do you
fellow Congressmen about how MFN is going to go?
think it's going to become an act of law, or is it going
to be left to the President?
SENATOR McCONNELL!
It's hard to predict what
may happen. As you know, the President said during the
campaign that he thought MFN should be conditioned.
There
is some discussion within the administration. The
Governor's been here expressing his point of view on that,
which I hope will have some influence.
It's just not clear, as we speak, exactly which
way the administration will go. I hope that they will
simply conclude that last year's rhetoric may have been
fine for the campaign, but it's simply not good policy in
1993.
/GOVERNOR PATTEN:
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