. >> now, former senator and governor sam brownback space at a heritage foundation event on human rightsbuses in china. he currently serves as the state department's ambassador at large for religious freedom. this is 90 minutes. >> i think we'll get started here. i'm walter. thank you for coming out. welcome back. really important issue we're here to discuss today, what minorities face in western china today. what we hope to do is understand itit

> we will take you to a conversation on human rights abuses income -- in china with ambassador sam brownback. this is live coverage from the heritage foundation. brownback: there are hosting the 2022 winter olympics, and we will have a summer olympics nest year -- next year. the international community should pressure china to shutdown the camps if they want to host the winter olympics. the business community has a huge responsibility in this crisis. reportedngton post fundst least two pension currently are investing in this country -- in a company that makes one third of the world's security cameras and are largely responsible for setting up the police state. we should also encourage our government, the congress to bann companies exporting technology or equipment, or technical assistance to chinese government and its technology companies. that has been in the news recently. action, wetime for have heard enough, and we heard how it ends. the government targets and ethnic troop or religious authority. i would like to end with a somber note. we are sitting on a ticking time bomb. if the chines

. >> now, former senator and governor sam brownback space at a heritage foundation event on human rights abuses in china. he currently serves as the state department's ambassador at large for religious freedom. this is 90 minutes. >> i think we'll get started here. i'm walter. thank you for coming out. welcome back. really important issue we're here to discuss today, what minorities face in western china today. what we hope to do is understand it a little bit, put a spotlight on it, and discuss some solutions to the problem. that's what we do at the heritage foundation. we don't just study the issues, we look for issues we suggest the government do, not just the executive branch, but congress, as well, thanks to address foreign policy, asian policy in particular. we look for conservative mistake, and make no all americans, including conservatives, ought to be concerned about what's going on in western china. not only because of the situation these people are facing because they're a minority. that would be a problem itself. a particularly because they face persecution because of their fa

and the other day, i can't remember where we were, but we were at some event and former senator sam brownback, now the ambassador for religious freedom at the state department told me, he said, ralph, i can't walk 20 feet at the white house, here on capitol hill, or in any cabinet department building without running into somebody who is, a, a committed believer, and, b, somebody i have worked with for at least 20 years in advancing our pro family pro-life agenda. [ applause ] >> when the pro family pro-life movement first broke upon the beaches in our system in the early '70s and '80s and helped elect ronald reagan, nothing against the many people that served him, reagan was often the only conservative in the meeting. he was the only one and so we had to rely on him. now, we have people all over this government. i will tell you, as somebody who goes back to that time, there are more christians serving in the cabinet, serving in the white house staff, in the subcabinet, in cabinet and agency staff, and here on the hill under this president than all the previous presidents combined. [ applause