China's Relationship with Congress Strained

Newsweek, April, 2001 by Bill Turque

Rep. Tom Lantos fought with the Hungarian underground as a Budapest teenager in World War II and was among the Jews rescued from the Nazis by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. As the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, the San Francisco-area Democrat has made human rights-and their scarcity in China-a big piece of his political portfolio.

Lantos opposes normalization of trade relations and supports the sale of advanced Aegis destroyers to Taiwan. Two weeks before the U.S. spy plane went down on Hainan Island, he sponsored a resolution urging the International Olympic Committee not to award the 2008 games to Beijing unless it releases all political prisoners and generally reforms its human-rights practices. Lantos thinks the last couple of weeks have been...

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