Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll comment briefly. I certainly hope it does, and I think at some point it'll have to recognize that. At the moment, unfortunately, so many businesses are not making that a requirement, or not forcing it upon the Chinese system. They're happily going in and conducting business inside China without that being any sort of prerequisite.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, I think there's no question that this, sadly, has been the effect of China's economic position. They certainly are an economic world leader. I wouldn't go further and call them a world leader beyond that. I think they're masquerading as one, simply because they're not respecting the rights of their own citizens.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I can really only speak to initiatives by the U.S. government, although I know that many other countries, like Australia and England, and many world leaders have at least called for the release of Liu Xiaobo. On specific initiatives that I can speak to in the United States, apart from whatever President Obama is doing privately, or what the White House or State Department is doing, our U.S.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sure. I guess I'll start. My name is Maran Turner. I'm the executive director of Freedom Now. Freedom Now is a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to work on behalf of prisoners of conscience all over the world. Those are individuals who are imprisoned or detained because of what they say or what they believe or who they're associated with.