| 00:00:00 | A POWERFUL BUT THOROUGHLY UNSETTLING PIECE BY CHINESE DISSIDENT YUJIA IN "THE WASHINGTON POST. |
| 00:00:10 | " HE SAID CHINESE DISSIDENT EXILED TO THE WEST TODAY GET A VERY DIFFERENT RESPONSE THAN SOVIET WRITERS RECEIVED NOT LONG AGO. |
| 00:00:18 | I WOULD GO FURTHER THAT MR. |
| 00:00:20 | YU. |
| 00:00:21 | CHINESE DEFECTORS GET A VERY DIFFERENT RESPONSE AS EVIDENCED BY A STORY THAT BROKE DAYS AGO ABOUT A SENIOR COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL IN CHINA THAT REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED TO DEFECT TO THE U. |
| 00:00:31 | S. AND WAS TURNED AWAY AFTER HIS REQUEST FOR ASYLUM WAS REJECTED. |
| 00:00:37 | THE SOFT-SPOKEN MAN WHO I RECENTLY MET ENDURED BEATINGS AND TORTURE FROM CHINESE SECRET POLICE. |
| 00:00:46 | HE ASSERTS CHINA IS A GREATER THREAT THAN THE SOVIET UNION EVER WAS BUT NOW THE WEST LACKS VISIONARY POLITICIANS SUCH AS RONALD REAGAN TO STAND UP TO THAT THREAT. |
| 00:00:55 | I COULD NOT AGREE MORE. |
| 00:00:57 | IN FACT, JUST LAST WEEK, ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER MEMBERS, WE URGED PRESIDENT OBAMA IN A LETTER SIGNED BY A NUMBER OF MEMBERS TO DO WHAT REAGAN HAS DONE. |
| 00:01:06 | WE URGED HIM TO MEET WITH THE FAMILIES OF THESE DISSIDENTS. |
| 00:01:09 | WE URGED THE PRESIDENT TO PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY RAISE THE CASES OF SIX PROMINENT CHINESE CITIZENS WHO SUFFERED GREATLY AT THE HANDS OF THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:01:19 | AMONG THEM, GAO. |
| 00:01:20 | WE WILL HAVE THE HONOR OF HEARING HIS WIFE MOMENTARILY. |
| 00:01:24 | WE ALSO URGED THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT TO MEET WITH MR. |
| 00:01:28 | GAO'S WIFE PRIOR TO THE MEETING WITH CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT TO HEARING FIRSTHAND ABOUT THE PLOY OF THESE DISSIDENTS. |
| 00:01:35 | WHILE THE VICE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO THE U. |
| 00:01:37 | S. IS ALREADY UNDER WAY, THE ADMINISTRATION COULD STILL GIVE GAO'S WIFE THE COURTESY OF A MEETING, THE COURTESY OF A MEETING, AFTER THE FACT, GIVEN THAT THEY ROLLED OUT DIPLOMATIC RED CARPET FOR THE VERY GOVERNMENT WHO HAS IMPRISONED AND TORTURED HER HUSBAND. |
| 00:01:55 | CAN'T THEY NOW MEET WITH HER EVEN IF IT'S AFTERWARD IF THEY IGNORED IT BEFORE? |
| 00:02:01 | IT'S CLEAR THE CURRENT APPROACH TO CHINA IS NOT WORKING. |
| 00:02:04 | WE'RE LOSING JOBS. |
| 00:02:07 | GRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ABUSES ARE REPORTEDLY DISCUSSED IN PRIVATE MEETINGS BUT RARELY IF EVER RAISED PUBLICLY HAS NOT YIELDED ANY RESULTS AND, IN FACT, HAS EMBOLDENED, IT HAS EMBOLDENED THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:02:20 | WE SHOULD NOT FORGET TO PERCENTCUTE A CHURCH. |
| 00:02:26 | THEY SAY 25 CATHOLIC BISHOPS UNDERGROUND CHURCH ARE UNDER HOUSE ARREST. |
| 00:02:31 | PROTESTANT PASTORS ARE IN JAIL. |
| 00:02:33 | A TIBETAN NUN JUST SET HERSELF AFLAME ON SUNDAY BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVITY. |
| 00:02:37 | AND THE LIST GOES ON. |
| 00:02:39 | BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS IN CONTEXT WITH THE NEXT THING, THESE ISSUES WOULD HAVE FEATURED, I'M SURE, PROMINENTLY IN A TRIP TO SUZANNE JOHNSON COOK, STATE DEPARTMENT'S AMBASSADOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WAS READY TO TAKE TO CHINA LAST WEEK. |
| 00:02:55 | IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT HER TRIP HAS BEEN CANCELED, HER REQUEST TO MEET WITH CHINESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE DENIED AND A CEASE SA WAS DENIED. |
| 00:03:05 | SO THAT THE SPECIAL AMBASSADOR FOR THIS ADMINISTRATION CAN'T GET TO CHINA, CAN'T EVEN GET A CEASE SA AND YET YOU HAVE PEOPLE PUTTING IN JAIL AND TORTURING PEOPLE. |
| 00:03:19 | IT BEGS THE QUESTION, HAS THE DEPARTMENT PROTESTED THIS ACTION? |
| 00:03:23 | HAS THE SECRETARY OF THE WHITE HOUSE PROTESTED THAT THEIR OWN AMBASSADOR CANNOT EVEN GET A VISA TO GO TO CHINA? |
| 00:03:32 | I HAVE MORE BUT I'LL END ON THIS COMMENT. |
| 00:03:34 | MARTIN LUTHER KING FAMOUSLY SAID, QUOTE, IN THE END, WE WILL REMEMBER NOT THE WORDS OF OUR ENEMIES BUT THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS. |
| 00:03:43 | AMERICA IS A FRIEND TO THE IMPRISONED HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER. |
| 00:03:47 | AMERICA IS A FRIEND TO THE YOUNG TIBETAN NUN WHO JUST SET HERSELF AFLAME. |
| 00:03:53 | THEY THE KATRINA BISHOPS, PROS TANT PASTORS AND WE SHOULD BE SILENCE ADD THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN. |
| 00:04:02 | AND I YIELD BACK. |
| 00:04:03 | >> CHAIRMAN |
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