Jim McGovern

I believe that someday China will be free.

We can no longer afford to separate human rights from our other interests.

Either you stand with the 'Tank Man' or you stand with the tank. There is no middle ground.

The U.S. cannot be neutral when human rights are trampled with impunity or when crimes against humanity are being committed as we speak.

I urge all of my colleagues in the House to support the resolution.

One of the most inspiring images in history is the lone man standing in the street before the line of tanks on Tiananmen Square.

We remember with sadness the crackdown that followed as the People's Liberation Army was unleashed on its own people.

Good morning and welcome to a joint hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

The Magnitsky Act could be a powerful tool against the perpetrators of the Tiananmen massacre and human rights violations.

The existence of CCP's firewall is the biggest threat to the truth of Tiananmen 1989.

I truly want to believe that the world's leaders, including those here today, are wise enough not to repeat the mistakes of yesterday.

Three decades ago, if you had acted on principle and with foresight, you would have demanded that China acknowledge its crimes in Tiananmen Square.

You, the leaders of the free world, acquiesce to this bullying and ignore the inconvenient truth, which is that Taiwan is in fact a successful, independent country, with its own army, currency, government and people.

I think we clearly have to resist that. That's not the America that we know.

The human rights situation in China has drastically worsened, and U.S. efforts to protect and advocate for human rights have become less effective.

I want to thank all of the witnesses for your appearance here today, especially Mr. Kaixi and Mr. Zhou.

Our problem is with the Chinese government and their fundamental lack of respect for basic human rights and human dignity.

That is the most ridiculous and ironic part of the Chinese Communist government--that you will have journalists studying journalism in a place where you cannot even make an expression of discontent.

I see it in Cuba. I see it now in Venezuela where China is exporting facial recognition to the Maduro government so they can continue to control the populace as they demonstrate.

Together with a handful of protesters, I was beaten by supporters of the CCP's Olympic Torch relay on a San Francisco pier.

I think we ought to recognize the government of Tibet in exile. I think we ought to establish a consulate in Tibet, in Lhasa.

We mourn with you and will do our part to make sure that our country does not continue to slip into amnesia about what happened 30 years ago.

None of us can erase that from our minds and no matter how much the Chinese government wants to rewrite history...

The World Must Take a Stand Against China's War on Religion.

Hopefully this administration will turn that page, which previous ones have not done.