Chris Smith

Thank you for inviting me to testify this afternoon at today's hearing, 'Urging China's President Xi Jinping to Stop State-Sponsored Human Rights Abuses.'

I think our Pentagon, I think our State Department, misses by a mile the implications for China remaining not at war and not in a dire strait because of the demographic nightmare that they are experiencing.

You are waging war against your own women.

I have been working and combating the one-child-per-couple policy since I first learned about it in my second term in 1983 and offered numerous amendments to defund those organizations that aid and abet these atrocities against women.

Every year a TIP [Trafficking in Persons] Report comes out. We have minimum standards of government complicity.

As you all know, China today has more suicides of women than any other country in the world, and the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, in Beijing estimates 600 women per day--per day, not week or month--per day, commit suicide.

The United States really should do something to protect its own freedom, and that is Obama and the Congress should not keep silent when meeting Xi Jinping.

As you know, we have introduced the Global Online Freedom Act, but it has run into an enormous amount of opposition.

So I believe that kind of action from the government, from the Congress, is absolutely essential and critical.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner at the White House, Obama should at least raise the cases of Liu Xiaobo and many others.

It ought to be all about restoring the rule of law, abiding by the law, abolishing all forms of illegal detention and torture as main themes of their negotiations.

I would hope, and I would make the appeal, as did the Washington Post, that at Lafayette Park, those who gather in peaceful protest be given that opportunity to express themselves.

This residential surveillance forms the legal basis for Xi Jinping to maintain the one-party dictatorship.

This kind of illegal detention is now being widely used as jurisprudence in China.

After Xi Jinping took over power, much illegal government behavior that existed in the past is even more widely used now and is becoming the norm.

The Congress should pass a China Democracy Act.

It is time for the United States to begin the era of an engaged China with moral and strategic clarity.

We are looking at Xi Jinping as someone who admires the excesses of Mao Zedong and seeks to emulate him in some way.

To support this regime is both morally corrupt and strategically stupid.

I urge President Obama to engage President Xi on Internet freedom, press freedom, and freedom of expression.

I urge President Xi Jinping to stop his repressive policies and practices.

If Obama fails to raise human rights prominently, as he has failed to do in the past, it is a diplomatic win for Xi Jinping.

U.S. policy must be geared to protect China's rights defenders and religious communities and its women.

The hope that President Xi would be different, a different type of leader, has been completely destroyed.

President Xi comes to the United States next week, at a time when his government is staging an extraordinary assault on the rule of law, human rights and civil society.