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Chris Smith: When a member of the People's Congress was here leading a delegation, Madame Fu, I asked her about the 600 women…

On the recordDecember 2, 2015
When a member of the People's Congress was here leading a delegation, Madame Fu, I asked her about the 600 women purportedly who commit suicide every day... She says it was a lie.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith recounts a confrontation about suicide rates linked to China's population control policies.

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