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MAX BAUCUS MONTANA

Anited States Senate

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STATEMENT BY SENÁTOR MAX BAUCUS

CHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL TRADE SUBCOMMITTEE

IN RESPONSE TO BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S CHINA/MEN PLAN

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WASHINGTON, DC Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the International Trade Subcommittee, delivered the following statement today in response to a letter he received from President Bush.

One month ago today, Baucus wrote Bush expressing concerns about renewing Most Favored Nation status for trade with China, and asked the Administration to take steps to assure concerns about human rights and other issues were addressed.

Baucus's statement is as follows:

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All Americans are rightly outraged by the recent behavior of China.

How can any of us forget the stirring image of a single student holding back a line of Chinese tanks? How can we forget the horrifying images from the Tiananmen Square massacre?

What's worse, China's outrages did not stop with Tiananmen

Square.

In the last two years, China has eased its abuses of human rights only marginally.

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China has also moved toward selling very dangerous and destabilizing missiles into unstable regions and ignored international norms aimed at halting nuclear proliferation.

On top of all of this, China has pursued a

highly-protectionist trade policy that has blocked U.S. exports to China. Accordingly, U.S. exports to China are down and the

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