Most of our--and President Obama has made this clear; it is stated very plainly in our national security strategy--most of the most fundamental challenges to our national security around the world come from places where people's rights are not respected.
Malinowski links national security challenges to the lack of respect for human rights.
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There is strong, bipartisan cooperation where it matters most between the State Department and this committee.
It is a time, as we can all see from the headlines, when authoritarian governments beginning with big powers like Russia and China are striking out with great ferocity against freedoms of expression, association, and the press.
we are also seeing, in some ways, a very similar increasingly assertive set of measures to restrict civil society and to challenge the legitimacy of global norms.
Demonstrable progress on human rights is critical to the advancement of U.S.-Vietnam relations across the board, including in the security sphere.
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