Chris Smith

China's one-child-per-couple policy is a demographic and human rights disaster that has no parallel in human history.

More than ever, the U.S. needs a robust human rights diplomacy with China. It has been lacking, sorely lacking.

There will always be those who want to downplay human rights in relations with China, but the people here today remind us that the people of China suffered for freedom, they bled for liberty and demanded justice, democracy, and an end to…

It is my promise, and I am joined by many of my distinguished colleagues in the House and Senate, that we will always remember, always, Tiananmen, as long as the Chinese people especially cannot discuss its significance openly without…

The memory of the dead and those arrested, those who were tortured and exiled requires us to honor them.

I believe that some day China will be free. People of China will be able to enjoy all of their God-given human rights.

We are working on a bill that would do just that.

Our President needs to speak boldly, and he has not done so.

But evil need not be forever, and the suffering believers in China... are absolutely tenacious and courageous and long-suffering.

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

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.

We have recommended designation of China for CPC status since 1999, so this goes all the way back, really, to the beginning of our Commission.

China qualifies as an equal opportunity religious freedom abuser. There doesn't seem to be any group whose religious freedom rights they will not trample upon.

It really is unconscionable that in a place that we liberated... would become a bastion of intolerance toward religious freedom.

We are never going to make any progress toward democratization and true respect for human rights in China until we address the religious freedom violations.

I think it would be very important and valuable for the President to meet with the five daughters.

Let me urge you, Chairman Smith, to urge the five daughters and the people who are working with the five daughters to not give up on your request to meet, get a meeting for them with President Obama.

Because this Commission is among the most important, I think, that has ever been created.

The House is not the problem. We are very concerned about the Senate.

My hope is that there will be names named, that specific instances of religious persecution will be cited.

It would appear that the world has forgotten to some extent that China is an egregious human rights abuser.

It is a very serious offender, and that Congressman Smith, Chairman Smith, is why we put Pakistan as number one on the list of offenders among those not currently designated as CPCs.

Is human rights on the table?