Chris Smith

your case is the test, the test of the Chinese commitment to protect you, which they've given.

It is with equally great concern that I convene this hearing of the China Commission today.

I am very concerned about Pearl. I am concerned that she may be tortured because she was the head of this whole network that was to free Chen.

I am confident there will come a day when the Communist Party's brutal reign will end, when the Chinese people will experience a new birth of freedom.

The world is watching what's going on. Chen Guangcheng has become the face of China to the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

The administration, the Obama administration, has a high moral obligation to protect Chen and his family.

You don't accept verbal promises. You get some action, some good-faith action, before you close a deal.

Opening statement of Hon. Chris Smith, a U.S. Representative from New Jersey; Chairman, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

This is so recklessly cynical.

America missed an opportunity. When history looks at it, America missed an opportunity in Tiananmen.

Even if I didn't care one iota for human rights in China or for Chen, and all I cared about was the agenda that Secretary Geithner was to pursue during his visit, I would be emphasizing the Chen Guangcheng case because it put China and not…

Let's have come out of his case a determination on the part of Congress to get this administration to tear down the Internet firewalls.

Until that day comes, America should always stand with the Chens of the world.

I think, Secretary Clinton, this is the moment, I think, to deliver what you have promised.

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