By Rep. Christopher H. Smith - Monday, August 4, 2025 Vote for democracy in Taiwan and not trust China illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times OPINION: Last month, voters in Taiwan completed an exercise in constitutional governance unknown to their counterparts in communist China. Consistent with provisions of Taiwan’s governing 1947 constitution, which guarantees the right of recall, voters across various constituencies rebuffed an effort to unseat legislators they had put into of...
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By Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) As Co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, I was pleased to be at President Trump’s fair trade tariffs announcement at the White House on April 2. President Trump deserves special thanks for demanding fairness and reciprocity in international trade and his strategic vision and actions to reindustrialize our nation, create jobs and boost economic prosperity. Right now, there is one country, above all, which engages in egregiously unfair and predator...
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OPINION: By U.S. Rep. Chris Smith The annual March for Life is an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves to the defense of the weakest and most vulnerable. To recommit with love and compassion to tangibly assist women — especially through the extraordinary work of pregnancy care centers — to protect their precious babies and their own lives from the violence and cruelty of abortion. Pregnancy care centers are under siege by Planned Parentho...
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The following op-ed by Rep. Chris Smith, Chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, appeared in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal on Friday, May 24, 2024: https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-bill-clinton-lost-china-human-rights-trade-847f637c
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Below is the Washington Times op-ed by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) together with Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins on the immediate need to indict and prosecute Vladimir Putin as a war criminal:
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By Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) This week marks the 20th anniversary of enactment into law on December 21, 2001 of the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-95)—the historic, comprehensive law I authored to create a whole-of-government approach to mitigate and ultimately end veterans homelessness. Twenty years ago, approximately 300,000 veterans on any given night were experiencing homelessness in the United States. About 80%—suffered disability including post-traumat...
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By Congressman Christopher H. Smith, June 04 2020 12:01 am OPINION Thirty-one years ago today, the world watched with a mixture of hope and anticipation as over a million people gathered peacefully to demand democracy and human rights in the streets of Beijing and over 400 other Chinese cities. The promise of those heady days ended tragically with broken bodies and broken dreams. Dreams that were brutally suppressed by a Chinese Communist Party that will go to any length to keep its grip on pow...
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By Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) Seventy-two years ago, this week—on April 7, 1948—the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded to organize global responses to infectious disease pandemics that respect no national boundaries. Its effectiveness depends heavily on the good will of its member states, and the competence and trustworthiness of its leadership. The coronavirus pandemic revealed China’s malign influence on the leadership of WHO, and a glaring accountability and transparency deficit at WHO...
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