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Rep-elect Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said that U.S. politicians should defend the Chinese protesters who fight against Beijing’s stringent zero-COVID policies.
“Any time there’s abuse of human rights anywhere in this country, we all must stand up to defend them. Think what the protesters are doing. It sounds like [they’re] really taking the stand for their own lives, for their own rights, for humanitarian efforts,” Ramirez said in an interview with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD Television on Dec. 7.
“To me, the dignity of human rights is absolute priority and all policy that we look at, we have to look at it from that angle,” she added.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Dec. 1 sent a letter to China’s ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, warning of “grave consequences for the U.S.–China relationship” if the communist regime carries out a violent suppression of demonstrations similar to 1989’s Tiananmen Square massacre.
The letter came after reports emerged that the Chinese police had responded with notable force as protests continue to rage across China over the regime’s harsh COVID-19 policies.
