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The Spectacle Blog
A House subcommittee is set to take up a bill that would restrict travel in the United States for senior Chinese officials, in a protest over China’s one-child “family planning” policy.
Republican Representative Chris Smith, a frequent and fierce critic of China’s human rights record, authored the legislation going before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
Smith’s proposal would empower Obama to deny US entry to any senior Chinese official, or family members of any official closely tied to policies that set back democratic reforms in China.
China’s one-child policy has been in the news recently beyond this new legislation. Joe Biden, you’ll remember, made waves recently for seemingly dismissing the one-child policy as something he wouldn’t be “second-guessing.”
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RT| 11.2.11 @ 5:32PM
Chris Smith is the best - God bless him. And I think most Chinese younger siblings would agree with me on that.
Trinacria| 11.2.11 @ 6:51PM
Really? With the shit storm of domestic issues we have to worry about, we're spending time crafting useless legislation on Chinese family planning policy? Are senior Chicom officials going to receive news of the bill and think, "Reary, I can't travel freery in United States? Damn, better reverse one-child pawricy immediate-ry!"? C'mon folks - eye on the ball.
RT| 11.2.11 @ 8:40PM
...says Tlinaclia, who is abre to smugry say that because he wasn't abolted.
Trinacria| 11.3.11 @ 1:01PM
Fail (miserably); but thanks for playing, RT. Now, go back to your mobile home and throw your sibling a good hump.
Trinacria| 11.3.11 @ 1:01PM
Fail (miserably); but thanks for playing, RT. Now, go back to your mobile home and throw your sibling a good hump.
RT| 11.3.11 @ 11:07PM
Me fair (miselabry), Tlinaclia? You can't even lite comprete sentances or avoird making doubre post.
Us capitarist running dogs rive in houses and actuarry do have riving sibrings. You riberar aboltionists put your sibrings in tlash cans.
Renni| 11.2.11 @ 6:18PM
I wonder if the Chinese students who come here lie about this. I don't go out of my way to bring up this subject; it is just natural in conversation over time.
If a student says that he or she misses home, is a bit homesick or wishes to be at home during the spring festival, it is natural to reply, "Oh, I am sure that you miss your parents and siblings, don't you?" (then realizing one may have just put one's foot in mouth)
Yet I've been amazed lately at how many indicate to me that there is a sibling. Recently I've had several tell me that they have two siblings. This has come up when shopping to obtain gifts to take back.
I am not denying the issue of the one-child-only policies and to the terrible forced abortions this must cause. Or aborting the first child (girl) in the hopes that the next time around it will be a boy.
I am just curious if this is just one more big communism inequality in the land, i.e. the privileged get a "pass" on occasion on the number of children? Maybe?
Or is it true that a couple can pay a sizable fee to then have the right to have a second child?
RT| 11.2.11 @ 8:46PM
Renni, certainly there are different standards for people within the Worker's Paradise. Remember: all unborn babies are equal, but some are more equal than others.
MikeBee| 11.2.11 @ 11:16PM
Renni,
That's why the other child is over here. That way, it appears that they only have one child. Actually, they are having more than one, make sure that all children EXCEPT one become engineers, and send the engineers to the U.S.