Chris Smith actually said...

If you think that doesn't stifle free speech and academic inquiry, I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

We should all be afraid because they have no respect for basic democratic rights that we cherish so much.

The Chinese government spends $10 billion on maintaining and improving their censorship apparatus.

There are very real costs involved if we fail to confront China's pernicious authoritarianism at home and increasingly, abroad.