Chris Smith actually said...

I am very concerned that people have forgotten that China could have made a pivot toward democracy and freedom and chose tanks and brutality...

It has always been bad, Representative Smith, but I hear the stories of so many Ahmadi refugees who are fleeing.

We will look very carefully at all of the recommendations that you have made, and I hope that we can look to move on them expeditiously.

It is USCIRF's independence that allows it to shine a spotlight on abuses of religious freedom.