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Let me give you some quick examples of what we should do in the brief time that I have. Number one: within the last two weeks, the head of Zion Church was arrested, Ezra Mingri was arrested, along with a number of other pastors in that network. These guys are hostages. This wasn't done just willy nilly; they just didn't find out about this. The Chinese Communist Party has known about this group for some period of time, and I think in building up to the meeting between Xi and President Trump, what's taking place here is they're grabbing more trading material. These are hostages that they've taken. We should demand that they be released. We should stand up for these other faith communities and stand up with these other faith communities. We should stand up for and with the Tibetan Buddhists. The Secretary of State, the Vice President, the President should fly to see the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, and meet with him and say, "We want to stand with the Tibetan people." I think we should endorse the "third way" that the Tibetan Buddhists have put forward, where they would have an independent country within China. I don't think China is going to allow that, but I think we should stand up for it. I think we should stand up and advocate for the Uyghurs to be released from the forced labor camps that they are in. I think we should stand up for the Christians who are being captured, taken captive, put in horrific circumstances and conditions, and demand their release. And I think we should stand up for the Falun Gong. The writer and founder of Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, lives in the United States now. He sought asylum here. I think people in the White House should meet with him and declare that they should have religious freedom—and they should have it now.
A final point on this—and I could go on a long time, I've written a book on this, on China's war on faith. It will come out next year. I hope people follow it. This should move from being just a human rights issue to a national security issue. For us, religious freedom is the most potent, powerful tool that we have. It stands for our basic values. It stands as a complete threat to Communist China. The most organized domestic group inside of China that could stand up to the regime are people of faith, and they have been persecuted for decades. They have been slaughtered and killed for decades. The Chinese Communist Party has killed more of its own people than any other regime in the history of mankind, and nobody else is even close. They have done this, and they've got three genocides going on now.
What would be more important? The guy that was the head, at one point in time, for the Tibetans in exile, once told me, "Either the world will change China, or China will change the world." And we are really at that kind of moment. I always laugh anymore when they say, "These are foreign religions." The real carpetbagger in China is communism—that's what was developed in the European industrial age and goes over to China. It's the one that doesn't fit. If you want to get authentic China, do what the Falun Gong want—they just want to take it back to a cultural civilization that China was for thousands of years. If you want to get rid of carpetbaggers, do that. And so that is just such a canard. It's just such a lie. But they continue to hoist it, I guess, to try to convince the Chinese people or that this is the only answer that they've got.
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