{"id":3008,"date":"2020-08-27T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2021-02-19T03:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T03:13:41","slug":"chen-guangchengs-speech-at-the-rnc-transcript-and-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chen-guangchengs-speech-at-the-rnc-transcript-and-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Guangcheng&#8217;s Speech at the RNC &#8212; Transcript and Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings.&nbsp; My name is Chen Guangcheng.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Standing up to tyranny is not easy.&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; When I spoke out against China\u2019s One Child Policy and other injustices, I was persecuted, beaten, sent to prison, and put under house arrest by the Chinese Communist Party \u2013 the CCP.&nbsp; &nbsp;In April 2012, I escaped and was given shelter in the American Embassy in Beijing.&nbsp; I am forever grateful to the American people for welcoming me and my family to the United States where we are now free.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The CCP is an enemy of humanity.&nbsp; It is terrorizing its own people, and it is threatening the well-being of the world.&nbsp; In China expressing beliefs or ideas not approved by the CCP \u2013 religion, democracy, human rights \u2013 can lead to prison.&nbsp; The nation lives under mass surveillance and censorship.&nbsp; The United States must use its values of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law to gather a coalition of other democracies to stop CCP\u2019s aggression.&nbsp; President Trump has led on this, and we need the other countries to join him in this fight \u2013 a fight for our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Standing up to fight unfairness isn\u2019t easy.&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; So does President Trump.&nbsp; But he has shown the courage to lead that fight.&nbsp; We need to support, vote, and fight for President Trump for the sake of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>LINK:  Watch Chen Guangcheng&#8217;s Speech Here:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDqYMXxH09Y\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDqYMXxH09Y<\/a>            <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT Greetings.&nbsp; My name is Chen Guangcheng.&nbsp; Standing up to tyranny is not easy.&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; When I spoke out against China\u2019s One Child Policy and other injustices, I was persecuted, beaten, sent to prison, and put under house arrest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/chen-guangchengs-speech-at-the-rnc-transcript-and-link\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240,231,223,239],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chen-guangcheng","tag-china","tag-forced-abortion","tag-one-child-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}