I appreciate you actually being there. That was a significant commemoration of a significant date that changed America.

Not only losing money, losing one's freedom.

We are concerned about these constant erosions of the rule of law and our freedoms.

They want to destroy all hope for the future and to put despair in the people of Hong Kong.

The first is that China must learn to respect Hong Kong's system.

The Hong Kong government uses this as a pretext.

China does care about this hearing. It does care about statements from this body.

But what good is a deal if it is not honored? And the Hong Kong agreement is not honored.

We must insist that China, on these obligations and the promises made in the Sino-British Declaration...

no American resident in Hong Kong is safe once this bill is passed.

We are of course eternally grateful to you and your members for conducting this hearing in a timely manner because time is not on our side.

that it will 'legalize kidnapping'--legalized kidnapping--that should be something that should concern everyone.

If the U.S. and other governments around the world don't act immediately to pressure Beijing and Hong Kong to withdraw the changes, the Hong Kong government will ram through by early July an extradition law that will legalize kidnapping…

I think it is very important that the residents of that town feel listened to.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Ranking Member. Secretary, congratulations on your confirmation.

I thought we are committing national suicide with some of our spending and our debt, and some of the fiscal policies and decisions that we were making.

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