Editing Dana Rohrabacher (section)

=== China ===
After a reconnaissance flight over the [[Spratly Islands]] in 1998, Rohrabacher said, "We can't ignore this bullying by the Communist Chinese in the Spratlys. The presence of the Chinese military troops...is not only a concern of the Philippines. It is also a concern of the U.S. and other democratic countries in the world."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-15-mn-54172-story.html|title=Spratly Spat Heats Up Over Chinese 'Bullying'|first=David|last=Lamb|date=December 15, 1998|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=April 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424232115/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-15-mn-54172-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 1999, Rohrabacher led the House floor in opposition to legislation normalizing trade ties between the United States and China. The following year, as the House weighed another China trade bill, Rohrabacher said the trade bill was a giveaway to a select number of American billionaires and the Beijing regime, adding that President [[Bill Clinton]] could call "communist China 'our strategic partner' until his face turns blue, but it won't make them any less red."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/07/news/mn-27471/2|title=GOP Split Over China Trade Bill|first=Nick|last=Anderson|date=May 7, 2000|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=August 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124131731/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/07/news/mn-27471/2|archive-date=November 24, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2011 interviews, Rohrabacher described the Chinese government under the leadership of [[Hu Jintao]] as "a gangster regime that murders its own people" and described the Chinese government as Nazis.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/20/china-hu-jintao-us-congress|title=Chinese president Hu Jintao given frosty reception on Capitol Hill|date=January 20, 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193331/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/20/china-hu-jintao-us-congress|url-status=live}}</ref>

In December 2016, after President-elect Trump had a phone call with [[President of Taiwan]] [[Tsai Ing-wen]], Rohrabacher said the call "showed the dictators in Beijing that he's not a pushover" and that China "has had an enormously aggressive foreign policy".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188|title=Rohrabacher: Trump's Taiwan call shows China he's not a pushover|date=December 5, 2016|publisher=Politico|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193446/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/dana-rohrabacher-trump-taiwan-232188|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Organ harvesting in China====
{{main|Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China|Persecution of Falun Gong#Organ harvesting}}
In 2012 Rohrabacher stated,

{{blockquote|The CCP and its state security machine uses a wide range of repression techniques including, not only limited to, censorship, beatings, home imprisonment, forced labor camps, those labor camps called the Laogai of course. And the most ghoulish manifestation of this gangsterism is the forced harvesting of organs of the political prisoners and religious followers that it arrests, particularly of the Chinese religious movement known as the Falun Gong.<ref name=OH/>}}

and

{{blockquote|to rip open the body of someone who is simply involved in a religious or personal or political idea that is contrary to the wishes of the ruling elite, to rip a body open of someone like that especially if that person's religious or political beliefs are pacifistic and not a physical threat to the regime, this is about the most monstrous crime that I can conceive of.<ref name=OH>[http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/75859.pdf "Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907020421/http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/75859.pdf |date=2016-09-07 }}, Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, [[United States House of Representatives]], September 12, 2012</ref>}}