Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the New York Times has recently obtained a secret trove of documents from the highest ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Those documents reveal some chilling, terrifying details about Beijing's campaign to stamp out all dissent and religious diversity in Xinjiang Province in the north, where the party has concentrated more than 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other minorities in reeducation camps. These documents bring to mind George Orwell's famous novel ``1984,'' not as the cautionary tale as he meant it, but as an instruction manual for the totalitarian government in Beijing. This reign of terror began in 2014, after a string of terror attacks in Xinjiang Province. But instead of bringing those terrorists to justice, the Chinese Communist Party used the attacks as an opportunity to eradicate all dissent--all wrong-think, if you will--from a province with 25 million residents. It would be as if you tried to turn the State of Texas into a concentration camp. These secret documents reveal a stunning order from General Secretary Xi Jinping. He said, ``We must be as harsh as them and show them absolutely no mercy.'' So to beat these terrorists, Beijing chose to adopt the tactics of terror. Every Uighur and dissenter in the province is suffering as a result.…”