By Congressman Chris Smith 

           Last week, the Obama Administration effectively dismissed, devalued, and debased human rights – especially women’s rights – in the People’s Republic of China.

            Today we have learned that the Obama Administration and the democratic leadership is poised to lavishly fund the UN Population Fund with $50 million of U.S. taxpayer money. This – despite the fact that the UNFPA has shamelessly and systematically aided and abetted the Chinese government’s one child per couple forced abortion policy. That cruel, anti-family policy has made brothers and sisters illegal in China and murdered tens of millions of children and wounded countless Chinese women.

            In a shocking display of pandering, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in Beijing, that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world over combating torture, forced abortion, forced labor, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide.

            Secretary Clinton said concern for the protection of human rights of the Chinese people can’t “interfere” with the economic crisis, climate change, and security – as if human rights were somehow disconnected and irrelevant to those issues.

            The protection and promotion of human rights ought to be at the core of our relationship with an egregious violator like China – not an afterthought.

            Everyday, brave Chinese risk their lives and liberty in the pursuit of freedom, democracy, protection of the family and respect per human rights.

            Chinese political prisoners languish in gulags – laogai concentration camps – facing unspeakable torture and abuse. As a matter of a fact, approximately half a million each day endure the cruelty and humiliation of the labor camp.

            It is too much to ask that our Secretary of State firmly and boldly raise human rights rather than a tin cup?