Jim McGovern

How can you accept them into the WTO when they break with impunity human rights standards and norms?

I've chaired 68 congressional hearings on human rights abuses in China over the years.

People don't understand about the journalists that have been detained.

The Chinese are cheating when it comes to global trade. They're cheating by stealing intellectual property.

The U.S. Government will not allow enforced amnesia to silence truth, and that you stand with the Tiananmen Mothers

For 30 years the appeasement policy has produced a monster.

It was a great mistake for the United States to allow China to enter the WTO with the firewall.

I ask this committee to offer a place, here on Capitol Hill, for Liu Xiaobo.

The Communist Party today in China is using technology to stay in power.

Let us continue to work to achieve Liu Xiaobo's dream and the dream of the Tiananmen protesters, a future of freedom for all.

We cannot allow economic interests with China to blind us to the moral injustices committed by China.

Today let us recognize that the greatest tribute Congress can make to the fallen freedom fighters of Tiananmen is to use our influence to advance the democratic aspirations of that generation.

If we do not speak out for human rights in China because of economic concerns, we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights in any other place in the world.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

The title of today's hearing is 'Tiananmen at 30: Examining the Evolution of Repression in China.'

I want to thank my cochair, Senator Marco Rubio, of the China Commission, and Congressman Chris Smith, my cochair on the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

Opening Statement of Hon. James P. McGovern, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

We are outraged about the human rights abuses that continue to occur.

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

Dictatorships do not matriculate to democracies because you give them more money. As a matter of fact, I believe it makes them worse.

We urge the Chinese government to respect human rights and freedom, to release arbitrary detainees, and to overturn counterproductive policies on terrorism, speech, and cyber policy.

We urge the Communist Party to make a full and public accounting of those killed or missing.

We cannot stand silent in the face of this aggression and abuse of so many people's basic rights and dignity.

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

I hope that the time has come for the U.S. to once again lead, along with the rest of the free world.