Nothing sums up the Biden administration better than the video of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently prostrating herself before the Chinese Communist Party.
The sight of one of America’s most powerful Cabinet members groveling before her counterpart in one of the world’s most evil empires was enough to sicken anyone.
The moment was so appalling that even the media’s backlash was swift.
For Republicans, it was the living embodiment of Biden’s foreign policy weakness.
Yellen, who bowed so much she looked like a political bobblehead, outraged Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who said her subservience was "emblematic of this administration." Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., demanded to know, "What country does Secretary Yellen work for??"
If America’s own leaders don’t recognize our nation’s sovereignty and standing on the global stage, it not only jeopardizes our foreign policy and national security, it also endangers the vulnerable.
To the citizens of this country, Biden’s timidity on the international scene is horrifying — but to the believers and religious minorities globally who rely on the United States’ advocacy, it’s deadly.
Displays like Yellen’s don’t simply undermine American interests, they embolden repressive governments like China’s.
Which of our enemies could possibly take us seriously when our country cowers in the face of their tyranny?
Thanks to GOP leaders, the new Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is pulling back the curtain on some of the CCP’s worst barbarism.
Recently, Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., hosted a group of interfaith leaders to highlight the brutal persecution in China.
This writer had the opportunity to testify about the threat China poses to religious freedom alongside Amb. Sam Brownback, Mayflower Church Pastor Pan Yongguang, Bob Fu, and several members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which this writer chaired.
As I and so many witnesses attested, China’s horrifying treatment of Christians and other minorities continues to grow more nightmarish in scope.
There’s the ghoulish trafficking of human body parts, a black market built on the violent removal of organs from the CCP’s youngest prisoners against their will. We’re talking about "100,000 people per year," Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., has warned.
"[They] take their organs — two to three per person. It is barbaric. It is Nazi-like. It’s going on right now."
During my time on USCIRF, the stories would send chills down even the most stoic spines. Routinely, witnesses say, doctors would be paged in the middle of the night to come to their hospitals.
New truckloads of dissidents would have arrived — Falun Gong, Uyghurs, or Christians.
One survivor talked about her surgeon husband who used to wake up screaming from the things he’d been asked to do to living, breathing patients.
"He told me, 'You have no idea of my agony. It would be okay if we removed organs from dead bodies, but these people were truly alive.'"
Other forms of such torture occured as well, involving some 2,000 persons.
The most excruciating forms of torture are still happening behind barbed wire walls that Beijing has tried to hide.
Such savage tactics are an open secret now, thanks to whistleblowers like Jiang, who shudders to think of what he saw as a police detective.
Every night, he told CNN, his teams — armed with assault rifles — would fan out, knocking on the doors of religious minories. "We took [them] all forcibly overnight," he explained.
Handcuffed and hooded, they’d be taken to headquarters, where police would "kick them, beat them [until they’re] bruised and swollen . . . until they cried."
Policemen, one survivor explained, would take the pretty girls away with them, raping them. Young men would be criminally abused — repeatedly.
Those fortunate enough to evade China’s modern torture chambers live in a state of constant fear, as the government destroys house churches in raids and nationwide crackdowns.
This month, news broke that churches in Zhejiang have been ordered to display signs "declaring their love for the Communist party" if they want to stay open.
Elsewhere, congregations are subjected to CCTV (closed circuit television) monitors, where secret police can monitor every word.
As Open Doors explains, a lot of house churches have simply stopped meeting or split into smaller, more clandestine groups.
Outside the church, the faithful also suffer under China’s infamous social credit score, which blocks dissidents from everyday transactions; low scores have barred 23 million Chinese from traveling.
This is the reality of the Chinese Communist Party — the same bloodthirsty empire this White House is showing deference to in public.
American leaders should do nothing that suggests we honor a regime that sees human rights as an impediment to political power and control.
The Biden administration should not be kowtowing to China — they should be holding them accountable for their systematic and egregious violations of fundamental human rights, chief among them religious freedom.
Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council. He previously chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Tony is the host of a nationally syndicated program, "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins." He is a pastor, Marine veteran, and former police officer. Read more Tony Perkins reports — Here.
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