“The Chinese communists game the system,” Rep. Chris Smith said. “People are afraid to stand up to them.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses human rights and China with Smith, a representative of New Jersey’s 4th district. For the past four decades, Smith has been one of Congress’s most vocal critics of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the U.S. policies that have enabled the regime’s abuses—from forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners to genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Jan Jekielek: I want to talk to you about how we got to this place where the Chinese regime has hosted the 2022 Olympics and is kind of laughing at the world about the egregious genocides and human rights violations there. It wasn’t always like that. Rep. Chris Smith: You’re absolutely right. There was always an understanding of the human rights abuses, …