Chris Smith

So my hope is that we can really take that next step and say this cruelty that is reminiscent of the what the Nazis did.

We immediately introduced the Hong Kong Human Rights Democracy Act in 2014.

please clearly say not to Chinese Communist Party. This is the only way to stop any more human rights abuses in China.

We cannot just say oh, let's trade a little more, things will get better. It won't, it will go from bad to worse.

And if we are quiet or if we acquiesce, we enable gross evil.

I said this is a communist party's kind of new tactic of transnational repression, you know, threats against me.

There are huge gaps in terms of the entities list.

so many people in Washington and other capitals, particularly in Europe, are mealy mouthed and so afraid to say anything.

I again--once again call on the Biden Administration to please step and lead a global effort to free China's prisoners of conscience.

And in Congress, we in a bipartisan way remember that massacre each and every year to honor the victims who have never received justice.

I would like to lead the delegation there. Our Chief of Staff on the China Commission, Piero Tozzi, and I would put together a group... to go there, spend at least a week.

We all know what tyranny is. We know that China has excelled in it, especially more recently under Xi Jinping.

I mean, I will sell you the Brooklyn Bridge if you believe that, and I know you know, all of you that that is just so naive in the extreme and self-serving.

From the highest levels in our government the United States must publicly and consistently call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners in China and do so by name.

They had no data base.

I am concerned about the complicity of our higher education.

the bolder the clarity that you bring, the honesty that is absolute, I am speaking to the two wives especially, but all of you, you know, the Chinese Communist Party knows we mean business.

I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post a few years ago about the sinicization under Xi Jinping, and how if world leaders do not start speaking up about how they are just completely either coopting or destroying all faiths, all faiths…

when you kowtow, when you come in weakly with the Chinese Communist Party, when you are hedging your bet, they beat us more in the prison.

We will followup on it officially and God willing it will happen.

I hope that people will pay attention to Wang Bingzhang, Xu Zhiyong, Ding Jiaxi, Wang Zang, Guo Geixiong, and other prisoners of conscience.

Those loopholes have to be closed quickly.

We cannot separate human rights from other interests especially trade, sacrificing both Chinese victims and American values in the process.

The CCP is a barbaric government that does not respect any rule of law.

Every single time, it has to be an engagement.