"I think we would have a different China today--if not for what happened on May 26th, 1994"
"I've introduced a bill that would re-link MFN with trade, the PNTR, as they call it now, with a number of categories, including political prisoners."
"We need conditionality and not trade in an unfettered way that enables a dictatorship to just absolutely maltreat its own people."
"Nothing could be further from the truth. They'll get more powerful and more dictatorial, and they'll have the means to carry it out with more impunity."
"I do feel that the horse has left the barn. At this point, it's a lot harder to get the horse back in the barn."
"I think a big part of it is China's power, particularly its economic power."
"Now we have TikTok, which is even worse."
"What has happened to my father could happen to anyone, to any organization."
"I ask that the United States Government continue to do all it can to secure my father's freedom."
"I call the young people of Hong Kong today 'the prison generation'--oppression is one of their most defining experiences."
"We regard this type of diplomacy as entirely inappropriate. Tantamount to appeasement, it sends the exact wrong message to the Communist Party."
"The current administration's China policy is largely fair, robust, coherent, comprehensive, and rational."