Katrina Lantos Swett: “Shame on us if we miss it.”

Any independent religious expression is targeted in China . . . unless practitioners of whatever faith basically submit to government-controlled religious organizations and religious worship, they are at risk of becoming a target.

When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...

We are concerned that the designations that have been made in the past simply become... part of the wallpaper that nobody pays attention to.

It is more than a little disingenuous for BBG to come back and say, Well, we are required by law only to promote our content.