Calendar No. 247

Condemning the Government of the People’s Republic of China for engaging in transnational repression.

Whereas transnational repression refers to actions by foreign governments that cross national borders to intimidate, silence, coerce, or harm individuals, including members of diaspora and exile communities, in order to suppress dissent and control political expression;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China, as the world’s most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, is carrying out a coordinated campaign to surveil, harass, threaten, and coerce individuals living abroad, including people who are lawfully residing in the United States;

Whereas these actions have targeted political dissidents, human rights defenders, and ethnic and religious communities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hongkongers;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China's efforts to intimidate and control individuals residing in the United States, often through covert operations or unregistered agents, constitute a violation of United States sovereignty and an affront to the rule of law; and

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China, in coordination with local authorities, has also sought to exert pressure by harassing, threatening, or unlawfully detaining the family members of such individuals who are still residing in the People's Republic of China or regions controlled by the Government of the People's Republic of China, and by engaging in other acts of harassment targeting such family members, including the confiscation of property, freezing of financial assets, and cancellation of passports to restrict freedom of movement: Now, therefore, be it

Whereas transnational repression refers to a range of tactics that foreign governments employ to reach beyond their borders to harm, intimidate, threaten, harass, or coerce individuals, including political dissidents, journalists, political opponents, religious and ethnic minority groups, and members of diaspora and exile communities, that represents a threat to those who seek to exercise their basic rights and freedoms in the United States and abroad and to United States sovereignty and democracy;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China, as the world’s most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, is carrying out a coordinated campaign to surveil, harass, threaten, and coerce individuals living abroad, including people who are lawfully residing in the United States;

Whereas these actions have targeted political dissidents, defenders of internationally-recognized human rights, and ethnic and religious communities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hongkongers;

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China's efforts to intimidate and control individuals residing in the United States, often through covert operations or unregistered agents, constitute a violation of United States sovereignty and an affront to the rule of law;

Whereas authorities in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which is controlled by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, have issued arrest warrants and bounties on overseas Hongkongers, in an extraterritorial and illegal application of its national security laws to silence or intimidate individuals living abroad, including those who are lawfully residing in the United States; and

Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China, in coordination with local authorities, has also sought to exert pressure by harassing, threatening, or unlawfully detaining the family members of such individuals who are still residing in the People's Republic of China or regions controlled by the Government of the People's Republic of China, and by engaging in other acts of harassment targeting such family members, including the confiscation of property, freezing of financial assets, and cancellation of passports to restrict freedom of movement: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate—

“That the Senate—