Chris Smith: “Human rights advocacy is a great power tool to get dictatorships to start coming to terms on all the issues.”

I thank the chairman for his support and for yielding this time. Mr. Speaker, every year under Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party, tens of thousands of young women and men, average age 28, are murdered in cold blood to steal their…

We must act now, and we must act decisively. The lives of so many lie in the balance.

It is the absolute critical node on their path to sovereignty, security, and sustained democracy.

The funds emanate from Russian-backed oligarchs, including Mr. Shor, who you mentioned in your opening statement.