§ 6902. — Policy.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC6902]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 77--UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 6902. Policy
It is the policy of the United States--
(1) to develop trade relations that broaden the benefits of
trade, and lead to a leveling up, rather than a leveling down, of
labor, environmental, commercial rule of law, market access,
anticorruption, and other standards across national borders;
(2) to pursue effective enforcement of trade-related and other
international commitments by foreign governments through enforcement
mechanisms of international organizations and through the
application of United States law as appropriate;
(3) to encourage foreign governments to conduct both commercial
and noncommercial affairs according to the rule of law developed
through democratic processes;
(4) to encourage the Government of the People's Republic of
China to afford its workers internationally recognized worker
rights;
(5) to encourage the Government of the People's Republic of
China to protect the human rights of people within the territory of
the People's Republic of China, and to take steps toward protecting
such rights, including, but not limited to--
(A) ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights;
(B) protecting the right to liberty of movement and freedom
to choose a residence within the People's Republic of China and
the right to leave from and return to the People's Republic of
China; and
(C) affording a criminal defendant--
(i) the right to be tried in his or her presence, and to
defend himself or herself in person or through legal
assistance of his or her own choosing;
(ii) the right to be informed, if he or she does not
have legal assistance, of the right set forth in clause (i);
(iii) the right to have legal assistance assigned to him
or her in any case in which the interests of justice so
require and without payment by him or her in any such case
if he or she does not have sufficient means to pay for it;
(iv) the right to a fair and public hearing by a
competent, independent, and impartial tribunal established
by the law;
(v) the right to be presumed innocent until proved
guilty according to law; and
(vi) the right to be tried without undue delay; and
(6) to highlight in the United Nations Human Rights Commission
and in other appropriate fora violations of human rights by foreign
governments and to seek the support of other governments in urging
improvements in human rights practices.
(Pub. L. 106-286, div. B, title II, Sec. 203, Oct. 10, 2000, 114 Stat.
893.)
