Chris Smith actually said...

The reality is that the administration chose to reward one of Asia's most repressive regimes with the region's most worst human rights record without getting any tangible progress on freedoms and liberties.

Context

Criticism of U.S. policy towards Vietnam's human rights situation.

06/21/2016

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