Chris Smith

The human rights situation is the worst in China since the Cultural Revolution.

Marco Rubio and I sent a letter to the Ambassador of China to the United States on December 7, expressing our deepest concern regarding the recent disappearances of three Chinese citizens.

Finally, ask the Chinese Government to allow my children to leave China.

Create a special coordinator office at the State Department for the Uyghurs.

Meet Uyghur, Chinese, and Tibetan leaders and human rights activists at the White House.

The Global Magnitsky Act is in route to becoming law.

Ask China to change its repressive policies, which are the root cause of all bloody incidents in the Uyghur region.

Call on China to free Ilham Tohti, Li Xiaobo, and all Uyghur, Chinese, and Tibetan political prisoners.

First, prioritize Uyghur issues, especially during the human rights dialogue and the strategic and economic dialogue with China.

However, we ask the incoming administration to publicly raise the Uyghur issue with China.

I think to really--this is important that the United States should unequivocally condemn the Chinese brutal violation of international laws.

The so-called annual Human Rights Dialogue is just nothing but a waste of time and taxpayers' money and should be abolished.

I think it is time to have a major paradigm shift in the whole approach to the China policy in the next administration.

In its position as a global leader, the United States should express a position of leader support for the universal values of freedom, democracy, and human rights.

The U.S. must recognize that China's internal repression drives its external aggression.

The next Administration faces major challenges in dealing with China.

Let us be clear. Pressure works.

The Uyghur people greatly appreciate the United States' support of our plight; however, we ask the incoming administration to publicly raise the Uyghur issue with China.

Pressure works. My presence here today is testament to the success of pressurizing Chinese officials.

Your persistence on the issue of human rights is something incredibly admirable.

This issue of basic human rights, it unites all of us.

If we continue to bring these issues up, if we continue to lead with our values, and tie those to our economic policies, not separate them from that, that there is potential here for us to get to a common ground.

I would not use us as an example of the right way to do it because many of us know there are things we could do differently.

Hong Kong feels different, and it feels different in one of those most basic ways of personal freedoms, religious freedoms, freedom of expression.

Those of us in here know going back to President Clinton, most-favored-nation status and some of the changes--I certainly was under the illusion that liberalizing trade and openness would have a significant impact on liberalization of…