Katrina Lantos Swett: “The progress of freedom requires courage, it requires people in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who are willing…”

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.

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

We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.

I do think probably the single most significant thing that could be done to make IRFA a more effective piece of legislation...