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Chris Smith

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Chris Smith is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on a range of issues including human rights, foreign affairs, and health care. Smith has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at improving health services and advocating for the rights of individuals both domestically and internationally. His long-standing service in Congress has made him a prominent figure in New Jersey politics.

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Mar 27, 2023

Both suffer from Xi Jinping's genocide.

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Mar 27, 2023

the government of the PRC has failed to meet the expectations of the United States to engage in meaningful dialogue.

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Mar 27, 2023

So this discussion was not against the Chinese people, but against a system which is destroying them as well as us.

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Mar 27, 2023

the average age of those who are murdered for their organs is 28 years old.

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Mar 27, 2023

I request that Congress look into the role and responsibility of universities in the United States to protect the freedom of students who are targeted or at risk of being targeted by Beijing's apparatus of transnational repression.

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Mar 27, 2023

All of us need to do a better job exposing and reversing, or at least mitigating, the ugly, hate-filled campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to erase an entire people, the people of Tibet.

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Mar 27, 2023

We are greatly honored and privileged to hear testimony from a distinguished panel of experts who will not only further document massive human rights abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party against the people of Tibet.

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Mar 27, 2023

The CCP lacks the legitimacy--historical or democratic--to rule these peoples and we should not let that foundational fact get lost in the complex discussions of the regime's current crimes against humanity.

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Mar 27, 2023

I request that Congress and the Administration set up a hotline--if possible, even an office dedicated to this issue--where people can report incidents of transnational repression by Beijing.

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Mar 27, 2023

Today's hearing is an extremely important one, one which I hope will get wide attention and circulation, for it deals with the attempt of the Chinese Communist Party to erase an entire people, the people of Tibet.

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Mar 27, 2023

That is what is happening in Tibet. And it is, as I said, genocide.

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Mar 27, 2023

This is essential--completely essential--to long-term support for the Tibetans' call for self-determination.

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Mar 27, 2023

The best way to counter China's transnational repression is to proactively support the Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong people's transnational, decolonial advocacy for human rights and self-determination.

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Mar 27, 2023

For the purpose of closing. I thank Ms. Wild for her strong support and for her wonderful and strong remarks today in favor of this bipartisan legislation. I do believe that we are really at a point now where if not us, who? We need to…

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Mar 27, 2023

I want to thank the Sikyong for his very powerful testimony.

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Mar 27, 2023

It's shocking how complicit higher education, just like the business community, is with the Chinese Communist Party.

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Mar 27, 2023

I urge unanimous support by this body for this important legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) that the House…

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Mar 27, 2023

Any U.S. company transacting with the Chinese government to sell technology that can be used to further the Chinese government's repression is equally complicit.

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Mar 27, 2023

Indeed, both Tibet and Xinjiang are autonomous only in name, for both suffer a repression so staggering that one might consider it as amounting to genocide.

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Mar 27, 2023

You know, law enforcement to them, back home, means secret police and people who are surveilling ad nauseum.

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Mar 27, 2023

This hearing, 'Preserving Tibet: Combating Cultural Erasure, Forced Assimilation, and Transnational Repression,' will come to order.

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Mar 27, 2023

But we cannot take our eyes off the ongoing genocide being committed against the Tibetan people.

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Mar 27, 2023

Xi Jinping is using his sinicization campaign to completely co-opt all faiths and all belief systems, or destroy them.

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Mar 27, 2023

our country's support for Tibet will never waver.

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Mar 27, 2023

The Chinese version of history is a complete fantasy.

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