Ami Bera: “We must also send a clear-cut message of what our values are and that the United States and its hope for success will…”

Right now, American scholar Min Zin remains wrongfully detained in China, and Beijing continues to target scholars, human rights advocates, and diaspora communities whose work or speech it finds unwelcome.

Often the public out there sees Democrats and Republicans fighting and wonder: Where did that comity go? Where did the sense of being together go? Well, Mr. Speaker, this past December over the Christmas holiday, I was surprised by one of…

It's a different Republican Party, and, I think, shame on us as Democrats if we don't actually try to understand it.

But those exchanges depend on trust and the ability to study, speak, and engage without fear of harassment or arbitrary detention.