coerced abortion and religious persecution are two practices that the Chinese Communist Government denies take place in China. How, then, would denying visas to Chinese officials in which we have credible evidence that, in fact, they are doing--how would that impede the kind of positive relationship that you want to see? I again reiterate the questions: How do we reconcile the most recent rounds of arrests of those who tried to form a democracy party in China when they were detained and incarcerated? And the test of the rocket engines while the President was in China, how do we reconcile that with this supposed breeze of freedom that we now have blowing through China?
Asa Hutchinson: “coerced abortion and religious persecution are two practices that the Chinese Communist Government denies take place in…”
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Addressing human rights abuses and diplomatic relations with China.
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