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04/18/2006
PRI's Steve
Mosher to Testify on Human Rights in China FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 18 -- For the second time this year, PRI President Steve Mosher, China expert and author of several books, will testify before a House subcommittee about China. Mosher, who has lived in China and is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, will talk about the systematic human rights abuses that take place under the Communist government’s coercive population control program. Chinese women undergo forced abortions and sterilizations by the thousands every year under the program, which legally mandates a maximum of one or two children for most Chinese families. A little-noticed byproduct of China’s population control policy has been the growing gap between the numbers of Chinese boys and girls. Because sons are favored in China, girls are often aborted in the womb to allow their parents to try again for a boy without exceeding their legal quota of children. By 2020, up to 15% of young Chinese men will be unable to find brides. The hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations is called “Human Rights in China: Improving or Deteriorating Conditions?” and will be chaired by Rep. Christopher Smith (R.-N.J.), Congress’ leading human rights advocate. The hearing will be held Wednesday, April 19, at 10:30am in Rayburn House Office Building 2172. Mosher is the author of A Mother’s Ordeal and Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World, among other books.
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