Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China Mfn; Human Rights Consequences: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session; June 18, 1996
One possible reason is that, although there has been economic progress in China, this has not resulted in true economic freedom. In order to stay in business, foreign firms and individual Chinese merchants alike must have government officials as their protectors and silent and not so silent partners.
Yet there is money to be made in China. Every year at men time, we in Congress get the distinct impression that some of the people who lobby us are making money hand over fist. This is not at all the same as having a free economic system.
Large corporations made untold millions of dollars in Nazi Ger many. Dr. Armand Hammer made hundreds of millions dealing with the Soviet Government under the Stalin regime, yet no one seriously argues that these economic opportunities led to freedom or democracy. Why should China be different?
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