There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country,

Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenship has remained one of the last bastions of untrammeled state sovereignty. As a result, citizenship creates a giant loophole in the international human rights framework.

Bottom line, China is moving in the direction we want it to move in. There are more human rights today. There's more religious openness. There's more economic openness, which will lead to more political openness,

I am convinced that today terrorism poses the main threat to human rights and freedoms as well as to the sustainable development of states and people,

We have documented in the past a tendency of gold trading leading to human rights abuses in this part of Congo.