The United States Capitol, December 10, 2018 I’m proud to present the Citizen Power Award of the Thirteenth Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference to Bao Tong. Bao Tong is an important reformer from the 1980s, the reform period of Hu Yaobang and the early Deng Xiaoping....

I want to thank Andy and Mike Manatos and the Oxi Day Foundation for giving this important Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia, a Chinese poet and photographer and a woman of unparalleled moral courage. I had the rare privilege of meeting Liu Xia last month in New York when we were both there to take part...

The Bohemian National Hall in New York, September 27, 2018 I feel privileged to have the honor of presenting Liao Yiwu with the Disturbing the Peace Award, given annually by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation to a courageous writer-at-risk...

India-U.S. Relations: Building Democratic Cooperation New Delhi, August 7, 2018 For more than two decades I have been part of an effort by a small group of Americans associated with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the...