trips, taking over a thousand congressional staff members to China. In these trips, members have traveled to nearly every corner of China, including Xinjiang and Tibet. In their discussions, they have covered a wide range of themes important to the US-China relationship. Staffers participating in such trip

Chinese policy in Syria. Beijing cannot legitimize any insurrection abroad, as it has to deal domestically with separatist issues (such as in Tibet, Xinjiang, or Inner Mongolia.). To show that domestic considerations can logically obliterate considerations of human rights, George Abu Ahmad, taking domestic

want some new general principle of "responsibility to protect" to be used in an exaggerated way, because it could be applied to China's situation in Xinjiang or elsewhere. RLK: But there's more complexity with Myanmar because Myanmar an ASEAN country and China has great political interest in ASEAN, particu