Katrina Lantos Swett: “I am a big believer in the school of linkage and not decoupling of human rights from our other essential foreign policy…”

If they are unwilling to do something so easy, so easy, then I think we have to be concerned about their willingness to do something very hard which is unwind a very elaborate and deceptive and deeply embedded nuclear program.

Any independent religious expression is targeted in China . . . unless practitioners of whatever faith basically submit to government-controlled religious organizations and religious worship, they are at risk of becoming a target.

It offends me that as a result of exercising my right to free speech by writing a book, it has been necessary to take these steps to protect myself from an authoritarian foreign power.

By using these tools, and, frankly, I believe they have never been fully used, the U.S. can encourage respect for this right.