SENSE OF THE CONGRESS OPPOSING THE MAKING OF CERTAIN LOANS OR THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

SEC. 604. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS OPPOSING THE MAKING OF CERTAIN LOANS OR THE EXTENSION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. (a) Findings.— The Congress finds that— (1) the Government of the People’'s Republic of China ordered the People’s Liberation Army to brutally attack peaceful demonstrators who had assembled in Tiananmen Square; (2) this attack violated the human rights of the demonstrators; (3) several thousand innocent and defenseless protesters were killed in the initial assault; (4) these violations of human rights have evolved into a pattern of continuing repression and reprisals against citizens throughout China as evidenced by the beating of alleged dissidents, the order to the army to shoot “rioters”—the Chinese Government’s term for the peaceful demonstrators—on sight, the mass arrest of students and workers, the public declarations by government-controlled media that physicists Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian (who are being given refuge in the United States Embassy in Beijing) are “guilty” before being afforded due process, and the banning of all independent, unofficial prodemocracy organizations; (5) the Government of the People’s Republic of China is trying to suppress truthful accounts of the actions taken in Beijing and throughout the country, by, among other things, expelling foreign journalists, including the local bureau chief of the Voice of America, from the country; (6) the People’s Republic of China has received almost $8,000,000,000 in development loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and increasing amounts of assistance from the Asian Development Bank; (7) it is morally repugnant that, through such multilateral development banks, United States taxpayer dollars are used to support the present policies of the People’s Republic of China; (8) such development loans cannot be justified on economic grounds because economic development and market reforms cannot be achieved in the environment of repression that now clearly exists there; and (9) the People’s Republic of China is engaging in “a pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights 103 STAT. 2521such as flagrant denial to life, liberty, and the security of person”. (b) Statement of Policy.—It is the sense of the Congress that the President should— (1) instruct the United States Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank to use their voices and votes to oppose the making of any loan or the extension of any financial or technical assistance to the People’s Republic of China, in accordance with section 701(f) of the International Financial Institutions Act; and (2) consider the People’s Republic of China to be a country described in section 701(a)(1) of such Act until the President determines that the repression and reprisals against persons in connection with the prodemocracy demonstrations have ended.