Perdue speaks at Road to Majority Conference

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator David Perdue, R-Ga., spoke at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference on the global struggle between self-determination and state control recently.

The state’s junior senator said past foreign policy decisions have hindered the country rather than helped.

“For the next 50 years, the struggle in the world will be between self-determination and state control,” Perdue said. “Generations of foreign policy experts have thought that giving China more access to our markets and an increased standing in the world would make the country freer, lean toward our values and more capitalistic. Well, they have all been very wrong.

“Last month would have been Karl Marx’s 200th birthday. One country actually built, paid for, and shipped a huge statue of Marx to his birthplace in Trier, Germany. That country was the People’s Republic of China. This underscores how, today, China is dedicated to communism.”

Perdue told the gathering that China has continued its crackdown on the practice of Christianity in the country and has a plan in place to further restrict freedoms for its people.

“In April, the Chinese government continued its crackdown on Christianity by banning online Bible sales,” he said. “Today, the Bible is the only major religious text in China that is banned from being sold commercially.

“The Chinese government is creating a social credit score based on how well each individual conforms to state standards. Within two years, one-fifth of the world’s population is going to have an arbitrary government score that potentially restricts their freedom.”

Perdue said freedom is the principal most important in today’s world, at home and abroad.

“We know the importance of freedom,” he said. “We know God is the source of our freedom. We know that self-determination has always trumped state control. However, for self-determination to win around the world, it has to win here at home.

“If we are committed to self-determination and freedom, we can help unleash a new era of opportunity, security and prosperity around the world.”