Matt Salmon: “I know I have probably spent more time on this issue in the last 6 months than I have any other issue, because it really…”

“I know I have probably spent more time on this issue in the last 6 months than I have any other issue, because it really cuts to the core of our values. Of course we decry the human rights abuses that have happened in China. They are terrible, they are vile. Of course we are very sick and saddened by the nonproliferation issues that continue to be violated in China. Of course we are saddened and we are upset by the fact that they are pirating our software and our music and we are losing billions of dollars because of that. Of course we are sickened and saddened, me especially; having served a mission for my church in Taiwan, nobody was angrier than I to see friends and loved ones over there that I worked so long with for the 2 years, that I was there being threatened by missiles in the Taiwan Strait when that occurred. When we look at all of these terrible, terrible atrocities that are being committed in China, I think the gut instinct is let us come down hard, let us show them that we mean business.”