
I don't think Ron DeSantis is a conservative based on his actions towards Disney. I mean, you know, where are we headed here now? That if you express disagreement in this country, the government is allowed to punish you?
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I don't think Ron DeSantis is a conservative based on his actions towards Disney. I mean, you know, where are we headed here now? That if you express disagreement in this country, the government is allowed to punish you?

I hope that people will pay attention to Wang Bingzhang, Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, Wang Zang, Guo Geixiong, and other prisoners of conscience.

Every single time, it has to be an engagement.

I said this is a communist party's kind of new tactic of transnational repression, you know, threats against me.

when you kowtow, when you come in weakly with the Chinese Communist Party, when you are hedging your bet, they beat us more in the prison.

I again--once again call on the Biden Administration to please step and lead a global effort to free China's prisoners of conscience.

Today we renew our efforts once again to free Gao Zhisheng. Today we appeal to Xi Jinping to free other political prisoners as well.

so many people in Washington and other capitals, particularly in Europe, are mealy mouthed and so afraid to say anything.

So my hope is that we can really take that next step and say this cruelty that is reminiscent of the what the Nazis did.

I am concerned about the complicity of our higher education.

There are huge gaps in terms of the entities list.

From the highest levels in our government the United States must publicly and consistently call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners in China and do so by name.

We cannot just say oh, let's trade a little more, things will get better. It won't, it will go from bad to worse.

I do not care who is in the White House, you know, we all have an obligation, I think a moral duty that is not easily satisfied to stand for the weakest and most vulnerable and the oppressed.

if we mince our words at the State Department, at the White House, or in Congress because we want the next deal, we want to sell some more, the way the chamber of commerce so often shamelessly has done over the many years.

We will followup on it officially and God willing it will happen.