I thank them for their focus on bringing American citizens wrongfully detained abroad home and pledge to continue to work with them, to work with also Representative Tenney and any others to bring Ryan home also.
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Foreign policy
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There is no justification as to why the State Department did not designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern despite its own reporting and statements.
I am tired of us saying oh, let's just allow normal diplomacy to take its course.
If we care about human rights, ... we want them buying from the United States.
We should arm our allies and simplify this bureaucracy, so that they can do the fighting for their interests.
Our FMS sales are a critical tool of foreign policy.
We can also check the PRC's presence in our own backyard. That is a bipartisan goal.
We must not allow the CCP to continue its malign activities.
China's growing influence in the region is good news for no one.
It's very clear to see the difference in treatment to these two countries.
I have just proven with a few examples that China is on the offense while the United States is ignoring our allies in Latin America.
The Biden Administration has not shown the same respect toward those governments who are democratically elected.
That he does not deal with Communists. That the Chinese government kills people who want to be free. That he is going to break ties with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and China, which I think are policies that are actually pretty good for…
I want to say I agree with Mr. Thompson from Pennsylvania, that the problem is not the Chinese people. The problem is the Chinese government.
I think ensuring foreign powers do not have access to material that has not been shared with the American people is common sense.
We should not be allowing any of this information to be shared with, I think, any foreign entity.
As the CCP grows more belligerent in their behavior we must make sure that we have the proper safeguards in place to prevent future surveillance aircraft from violating our airspace.
This will force the State Department to treat the Chinese Communist Party and their government as who they really are, not a developing nation but an economic power that must be dealt with.