About the Event “If one were to remove these … shrines, the Uyghur people would lose contact with earth. They would no longer have a personal, cultural, and spiritual history. After a few years we would not have a memory of why we live...

Welcome and Introductions by Carl Gershman Let me first invite everyone to silence your cell phones and to let those using Twitter know that you can find our handle and hashtags in your program.   I also want to thank the many dedicated NED staff who organized...

The United States Capitol         June 4, 2019 It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Award ceremony, which this year is taking place on the 30

Responding to China in the New Era The United States Congress, December 10, 2018 The first and most important point I want to convey to you this morning is that we are now in an entirely new period in relations between the United States and China. In my view,...