By Rep. Chris Smith Published June 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT This past June 4, we marked the 37th somber anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, where millions of Chinese citizens peacefully and earnestly asked for political reform and democratic openness. Instead, their hope was met with tanks. On that awful day, the Chinese Communist Party unleashed the People’s Liberation Army on these peaceful demonstrators. Mothers lost sons. Fathers lost daughters. And China lost an idealistic generatio... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith Published May 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM ET As Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to travel to New Delhi to meet Indian leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is poised to pass a law that could do lasting damage to the relations between our two countries. But if Indian leaders set the bill aside, it would be a win-win for both countries. During its “Monsoon Session” from July 21 to August 12, the Indian Parliament is set to consider a bill amending India’s Foreign C... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith - Tuesday, May 12, 2026 China and human organ harvesting illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times OPINION: As President Trump prepares to meet General Secretary Xi Jinping in China, Americans should remember that the Chinese Communist Party stands at the center of a pernicious global industry that treats the human body as inventory. It generates as much as $1.7 billion a year, hidden behind shady networks of the corrupt and criminal and fueled by the oldest imbalan... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Adrian Zenz, Opinion Contributors - 04/29/26 2:00 PM ET The cute, collectible Labubu dolls flying off shelves come in “blind boxes” — buyers don’t know which figure they’ve purchased until they open it. But the ugly truth about these popular toys remains hidden: the cotton inside is tied to state-imposed forced labor in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The New York Times reports that independent testing of Labubu dolls bought in the U.S. found that 16 o... Read more

By Reps. Chris Smith and Dale Strong - Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Christians in China illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times OPINION: In December, hundreds of armed police swept through a village near Wenzhou, China, a city known as the “Jerusalem of China” because of its concentration of Christian believers, and reportedly tore down crosses and arrested more than 100 members of unregistered Protestant “house churches.” The intent of this operation was clear: Meet outside the state’s ... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith - Friday, January 23, 2026 Korbe Bohac holds her nearly 8-month-old son, Winston, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Bohac received free services, including pregnancy tests, sonograms and parenting classes, from the Insight Women's Clinic in Lawrence before and after Winston's birth. (AP Photo/John Hanna) OPINION: I met my dear wife, Marie, more than 50 years ago in the pro-life movement — and today, like you, we are more committed, hope-filled, determi... Read more

By Chris Smith Published November 20, 2025 The following are Congressman Chris Smith’s remarks from Thursday’s congressional hearing. _ Welcome to this critical hearing on the systematic and accelerating violence against predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria. This is my 12th hearing focused exclusively on Nigeria—with scores of other hearings on human trafficking, religious freedom, food security and human rights focused in part on Nigeria. I’ve led three human rights trips to Nigeria. ... Read more

By Chris Smith Published October 30, 2025 Religious persecution is festering and exploding around the world. What has been unconscionable for decades, centuries, has gotten worse. According to Open Doors 2025 World Watch List: “More than 380 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” Forty-five years ago, during my first term in Congress, I read Tortured for Christ by Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand. As so many of you know, it is the true story of... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith and Amb. Sam Brownback - Monday, October 27, 2025 Illustration on Communist China’s war on religion and scripture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times OPINION: In October, Chinese security agents swept through cities from Beijing to the coast, raiding the Zion Church network and detaining its founder, Pastor Jin “Ezra” Mingri. The point was plain — in Xi Jinping’s China, devotion that isn’t Communist Party-approved is treated as a political problem to be solved by police.... Read more

By Chris Smith Published September 28, 2025 Joanne Chesimard brutally murdered New Jersey State Trooper Foerster on May 3, 1973 after a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike and was given immunity from serving her life sentence by Cuba’s dictator Fidel Castro. The failure to extradite this fugitive domestic terrorist denied justice to Trooper Foerster’s wife and family and to his New Jersey State Police family. Justice was delayed for half a century— now forever denied—by the failure t... Read more