Government should do is engage in very close consultation with these allies to ensure that these punitive economic sanctions are multilateral. Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Handal, did you have another comment? You asked a very serious question that I can't answer. I'm a businessman and I'm speaking as an association. We have interests and we talk about those kinds of things. They are very important to us. You're asking a political question. Underpaid though you are, that's what you get paid for. [Laughter.] Mr. GEJDENSON. Thank you very much. We appreciate your time and effort here. Without objection, the report mentioned by Mr. Neier will be included in the record. Also, without objection, an essay by Mr. Barnett will be included in the record. The record will remain open for materials that bear on the issues before the subcommittees for five days. The hearing is now adjourned. Thank you all. [Whereupon, at 6:13 p.m., the hearing was adjourned.] APPENDIX 1 OPENING STATEMENT FOR JOINT. HEARING ON U. -CHINA LATIONS MR. CHAIRMAN, I COMMEND YOU FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING ON WHAT WE SHOULD DO IN DEALING WITH THE TRAGIC CRACKDOWN IN CHINA. ONE THING WE CLEARLY MUST DO, WHATEVER THE REST OF OUR POLICY, IS TO CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT LOUDLY AND CLEARLY AGAINST THIS OPPRESSION AND FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. WE MUST SPEAK WITH A VOICE AS LOUD AND FIRM AS THOSE BRAVE VOICES AT TIANAMEN SQUARE. AS THEIR VOICES ARE SILENCED, OURS MUST GROW STRONGER. WHEN WE CONSIDER SANCTIONS, HOWEVER, WE MUST REMEMBER THESE BANCTIONS WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE IF THEY ARE MULTILATERAL. IT WILL DO NO GOOD FOR US TO PULL OUT OF CHINA, ONLY TO OPEN UP MARKETS TO OTHERS OR TO OUR COMPETITORS. SANCTIONS, WHEN PROPERLY STRUCTURED, CAN BE AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN ASSISTING THE VOICES OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY AS THEY STRUGGLE TO BUILD A NEW CHINA. INDEED, IN THE CASE OF CHINA, THERE IS ANOTHER COUNTRY WHICH HAS MORE INFLUENCE THAN WE HAVE, AND LOGICALLY WE SHOULD WORK WITH THAT COUNTRY IN SETTING POLICY ON CHINA. BRITAIN IS UNIQUELY SITUATED TO INFLUENCE EVENTS IN CHINA. NO SANCTIONS WE COULD TAKE WOULD BE AS EFFECTIVE AS BRITAIN THREATENING TO ABROGATE THEIR TREATY WITH CHINA ON HONG KONG. AND THEY WOULD HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO ABROGATE THAT TREATY. THE TREATY STATES THAT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS "OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, OF ASSEMBLY, OF ASSOCIATION, OF TRAVEL, OF MOVEMENT, OF CORRESPONDENCE" WILL BE ENSURED. CAN ANYONE, IN LIGHT OF TIANAMEN SQUARE AND THE SUBSEQUENT CRACKDOWN, BE CONFIDENT THAT CHINA WILL ENSURE THOSE RIGHTS? WITHOUT SUCH CONFIDENCE, THE HONG KONG AGREEMENT IS NOT WORTH THE PAPER ON WHICH IT IS WRITTEN. MR. CHAIRMAN, I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING OUR WITNESSES TESTIFY ON U.S. POLICY IN CHINA, INCLUDING ON THE POINTS I RAISED. 23-661 467 APPENDIX 2 JUL 2 6 1989 Dear Mr. Levine: In response to your letter dated June 23, the Administration shares your concern for the Chinese citizens currently in this country. In his statement on June 5, the President ordered the sympathetic review of requests by Chinese students in the U.S. to extend their stay here. The Attorney General on June 6 took action to implement the President's order. The Attorney General's June 6 directive provides for the delayed enforcement of departure which you referred to in your letter. However, the directive also allows PRC nationals who are lawful nonimmigrants to preserve their right to remain in the United States and their eligibility for adjustment of status by asking the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to extend the period of their authorized stay in the United States. If they find themselves in need of financial support, these PRC nationals can also request permission to work in the United States. The INS believes its program is flexible enough that most PRC nationals should be able to remain in the United States without losing their lawful nonimmigrant status. The INS has instructed its field offices that, in most circumstances, an extension of a PRC national's nonimmigrant status would be preferable to a deferral of the alien's enforced departure after the alien's authorized stay has expired. Maintaining a PRC national's lawful nonimmigrant status preserves the alien's eligibility for adjustment of status. The Honorable Mel Levine, House of Representatives. -2 In addition, the INS has instructed its district and regional service center directors to authorize the expedited processing of requests from PRC nationals for extensions or changes of nonimmigrant status. The INS has instructed its field offices that the situation in the PRC may be considered to be "extraordinary circumstances" that warrant extending the stay of H-1 temporary workers and intracompany transferees for one year beyond the five year maximum stay for a total of six years. Regulations also permit students who have completed their studies to extend their student status in order to obtain practical training in their fields of study. Requests from PRC students for permission to accept off-campus employment are to be given every consideration as qualifying in that regard. a further effort to soften the impact of the upheaval in the PRC, the INS has suspended its restriction against off-campus employment for PRC students who are still in their first year of study. In The Department believes that these various options which INS has made available to Chinese citizens in this country will work to ensure that all Chinese students in this country who wish to stay here are able to do so. Sincerely, emlettly Janet G. Mullins Enclosure: Correspondence returned. |