Tag: Chris Smith

Congressional Hearing Examines Corporate Complicity in Subsidizing China’s Human Rights Violations

U.S. corporations are complicit in human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and subject America to national security risks by adhering to the CCP’s demands, witnesses said at a hearing held by the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Tuesday. During his opening remarks, commission chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.)…


US Companies Aiding China’s Human Rights Violations Under Spotlight at Congressional Hearing

U.S. corporations are complicit in human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and subject America to national security risks by adhering to the CCP’s demands, witnesses said at a hearing held by the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Tuesday. During his opening remarks, commission chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.)…


House Overwhelmingly Passes First Ever US Bill to Punish CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting

The House on March 27 overwhelmingly passed a bill to punish communist China for its forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. The move marked the first non-symbolic legislative measure in the United States to counter the atrocity. H.R. 1154, dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, passed by a vote of 413…


Biden Should Not Surrender American Sovereignty to WHO: Rep. Smith

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) has warned the Biden administration not to hand over U.S. sovereignty to the World Health Organization (WHO) as negotiations move forward for a global pandemic accord for its member nations. “The Biden Administration must not empower bureaucrats of the WHO—a troubled United Nations body that took disastrous missteps in the initial…


Bill Combating Beijing’s Forced Organ Harvesting Advances to House Floor

A bill aimed at combating the Chinese regime’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting has cleared the committee and is headed for a vote on the House floor. H.R. 1154, also known as the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, passed unanimously through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Feb. 28 and is now advancing to…


Film Review: ‘Sr.’: The Older and Younger Downey Bare Their Souls

R | 1h30min | Documentary, Biography, Film History | 2 December 2022 (USA) Robert Downey Sr. and Jr. are one of the very few parent-child combinations working within the arts where the younger ended up becoming far more successful and well-known than the elder. In the documentary “Sr.,” father and son refer to (and address) each other as “Sr.” and “Jr.,”…


Global Lawmakers Express Solidarity with Chinese Protesters as CCP Diplomat Signals Regime Will Persist With Zero-COVID

The Chinese communist regime has signaled that it will not abandon its draconian COVID policies despite mass protests in at least 10 cities across China over the weekend. Zou Xiaoli, the Chinese regime’s ambassador to Argentina, told reporters on Nov. 28 that China will persist in its dynamic zero-COVID policy when asked about recent protests,…


70 Percent of Abortion-Related Violence Targets Pro-Life Groups Since Supreme Court Ruling: FBI Director

Pro-life groups have been the victims of about 70 percent of investigations into abortion-related violence since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. The FBI director made the revelation during a Nov. 17 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, when he was questioned by Sen. Rick Scott…


Trump Says the Biden Administration Must Confront China Over US Fentanyl Crisis

Former President Donald Trump says it is imperative that the Biden administration confronts China now over the U.S. fentanyl crisis. “Must immediately meet with China on Fentanyl, and what they are doing in pouring it into the U.S. It is ripping our Country apart,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Oct. 6. Trump…


China’s Killing of Prisoners of Conscience for Their Organs a ‘Tool of Genocide’: Rep. Smith

The Chinese communist regime’s mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs is a “tool of genocide,” according to Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.). Beijing’s forced organ harvesting involves “the execution of people declared enemies of the state, as if on order to provide certain organs to meet transplant needs,” he said. “This is also an…