Ted Cruz: U.S. showing the wrong priorities with China
For too long, the United States has prioritized our economic dealings with China above speaking the truth about the Communist Party of China. The victims are dissidents like Guo Feixiong, on Day 78 of a hunger strike.

During a trip to Beijing last month for the eighth U.S.-China Strategic Security & Economic Dialogue, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked:
"After all, that's the purpose of government — to represent the people and to meet the needs of our people, both of us — even though, as President Xi said, we have different systems, different culture, different history. We acknowledge that. We respect that."

While I too acknowledge China's impressive 5,000-year cultural history, there is little about the Communist regime of the People's Republic of China that commands the "respect" of the United States. From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, the Chinese people have suffered an unbroken line of oppressive dictators. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are stones in a graveyard of failed Communist experiments that murdered millions, while Tiananmen Square and the One (now Two) Child Policy serve as warning to any who would seek to escape that repressive policies are unchanged.