[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4787-S4788]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




SENATE RESOLUTION 296--REMEMBERING, AS THE WORLD ACKNOWLEDGES THE 100TH 
  ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITY PARTY, THE COUNTLESS LIVES THE 
 CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY HAS DESTROYED AND THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY LIVING 
                  IN FEAR OF ITS TYRANNICAL AMBITIONS

  Mr. DAINES submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Relations:

                              S. Res. 296

       Whereas the Chinese Communist Party will observe its 
     centenary on July 1, 2021, with a series of celebrations 
     commemorating

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     its history and accomplishments toward improving the standing 
     of China as a world power;
       Whereas untold millions of Chinese citizens became 
     casualties of the Chinese Communist Party's quest for power, 
     enduring severe loss and suffering in what amounts to 
     humanity's worst atrocities since World War II;
       Whereas, during the Yan'an Rectification Movement from 1942 
     to 1945, more than 10,000 people were killed as the Chinese 
     Community Party attempted to attack and replace intellectuals 
     with people who supported the Communist ideology;
       Whereas, during the Chinese Land Reform of 1949 to 1953, an 
     estimated 4,700,000 landowners were murdered in order to 
     redistribute land to peasantry;
       Whereas, during the Campaign to Suppress 
     Counterrevolutionaries from 1950 to 1952, an estimated 
     712,000 people were executed for their political views and 
     1,300,000 more were sentenced to ``labor reform'';
       Whereas, during the Three-anti Campaign in 1951 and the 
     Five-anti Campaign in 1952, Mao Zedong humiliated, 
     terrorized, exiled, imprisoned, and killed thousands of 
     political opponents and capitalists, weakening the economies 
     of the major urban centers of China;
       Whereas, during the Sufan Movement from 1955 to 1957, the 
     Chinese Communist Party carried out a purge of hidden 
     counterrevolutionaries, arresting an estimated 214,000 people 
     and executing approximately 53,000 people;
       Whereas, during the Anti-Rightist Campaign from 1957 to 
     1959, approximately 550,000 people suffered exile, 
     imprisonment, and execution as Mao Zedong conducted a purge 
     of ``rightists,'' credited for creating the modern one-party 
     state of China;
       Whereas, during the Great Chinese Famine from 1959 to 1961, 
     an estimated 30,000,000 people died as a result of the policy 
     of the Chinese Communist Party, which prioritized 
     industrialization over agriculture, remembered today as one 
     of the greatest man-made disasters in human history;
       Whereas, during the Socialist Education Movement from 1963 
     to 1965, an estimated 5,000,000 people were persecuted and 
     77,560 were executed for their political beliefs;
       Whereas, during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 
     1989, an estimated 10,000 protestors were arrested or killed 
     by the People's Liberation Army after the Chinese Communist 
     Party declared martial law;
       Whereas, since the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 
     1997, the Chinese Communist Party has increasingly undermined 
     the autonomy and judicial independence of Hong Kong, 
     resulting in a series of deadly protests and demonstrations;
       Whereas, as of June 2021, an estimated 1,000,000 Uighur 
     Muslims are subject to mass detention and torture, including 
     electric shock, waterboarding, beatings, rape, forced 
     sterilization, forced prostitution, stress positions, forced 
     administration of unknown medication, cold cells, and organ 
     harvesting in re-education camps in the Xinjiang province of 
     China;
       Whereas, as of June 2021, an estimated 150,000 Tibetan 
     Buddhists live in exile in India and Nepal, 62 years after 
     their leader, the Dalai Lama, sought refuge from a Chinese 
     uprising in Tibet; and
       Whereas, as of June 2021, the Chinese Communist Party 
     exerts increasing political, military, economic, and social 
     pressure on Taiwan in order to undermine its freedom and 
     independence: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that, as the 
     world acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the Chinese 
     Communist Party on July 1, 2021, the Senate solemnly 
     remembers the countless lives the Chinese Communist Party has 
     destroyed and the people currently living in fear of its 
     tyrannical ambitions.

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