[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 16, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




CONDEMNING THE DICTATOR OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, XI JINPING, 
     FOR DECEIT, UNDERMINING PROSPECTS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY, AND 
                 ORCHESTRATING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

  Mr. SCOTT of Florida. Mr. President, I rise today and ask the Senate 
to pass my resolution, S. Res. 444, a resolution condemning the 
dictator and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi 
Jinping.
  There is no greater threat to America's way of life and peace and 
prosperity in the world than Xi Jinping and the CCP. Xi Jinping hates 
us. Communist China wants to destroy us. He is not a partner. He is not 
a competitor. He is a brutal dictator leading a criminal organization 
that lies, cheats, steals, exploits slave labor, and commits genocide 
and crimes against humanity on an industrial scale.
  Don't take my word for it. Let's look at what he has done. He and his 
Communist Party lied about the origins of COVID, and they keep lying 
about it. They used the World Health Organization to spread lies while 
over a million Americans died. And their incompetent and malicious 
response to COVID isn't the only way communist China killed Americans.
  Their unwillingness for years to completely curb the export of 
fentanyl precursors is directly responsible for the deaths of tens of 
thousands of our fellow citizens.
  Where communist China hasn't killed, it cheated. For decades, they 
have cheated on trade, causing millions of Americans to lose their 
jobs.
  Communist China's currency manipulation continues to threaten our 
economy and destabilize the world global order, as well as their 
hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of intellectual property theft.
  They don't treat other countries any better. In one egregious case 
last year, in the African nation of Zambia, communist China dumped 
toxic waste into Zambia's main river, poisoning the drinking water of 5 
million innocent people. It also destroyed the livelihoods of up to 12 
million people. It was intentional. They knew what would happen, and 
they did it anyway because they don't care.
  I have not seen a peep of outrage from the international community. 
Rather than help, communist China coerced the Zambians into signing 
nondisclosure agreements, offering them next to nothing in cash in 
exchange for never talking about it.
  That story of how communist China literally destroyed an entire 
country overnight should tell everyone exactly who we are dealing with. 
As the Zambian Government hopefully learned, with friends like 
communist China, who needs enemies.
  It is clear that Beijing doesn't care about the damage they inflict 
on others, and, of course, we know that Xi Jinping and his goons 
couldn't care less about their own people either. In Xinjiang, Xi's 
communist China is committing a horrific genocide against the Uighur 
people, putting over a million innocent Uighurs in camps and forcing 
women to share beds with Han Chinese men sent by the state.
  They harvest organs from political dissidents, including the Falun 
Gong. And in one case mentioned in the State Department's 2022 Country 
Report on Tibet, the CCP literally beat a Tibetan man to death for the 
crime of delivering food to a home for the elderly.
  Communist China apparently saw a basic act of charity as an attack on 
the state's inability to take care of its own people, a task they 
repeatedly fail at. But Xi isn't above physically attacking and beating 
his own people. Just look at what happened in Hong Kong in the summer 
of 2020.
  Six years later, they continue to unjustly imprison my friend Jimmy 
Lai. We will never stop fighting for his release.
  The CCP doesn't care about cooperation or respect. They constantly 
attack anyone they don't agree with, including our allies in the 
Philippines and Taiwan.
  They fly thousands of their military jets in Taiwan's airspace, 
utilize slave labor in their distant water fleet, and prop up 
terrorists and dictators from North Korea to Iran, to the Taliban.
  The CCP, especially under Xi Jinping's tyranny, has a particular 
brand of evil. They seek to control the world, and in their mind that 
means destroying anyone who stands in their way, whether it is their 
own people or not.
  We cannot be afraid to stand up to our enemies and hold the line for 
the next generation of Americans. The numerous policy mistakes we made 
in the last few decades, including the idea that if only every Chinese 
citizen could get an F-150 and a Coke, they would eventually abandon 
their communist system and become more like us.
  Instead, the opposite has happened, where we have literally 
subsidized the CCP's military modernization, economic development, 
genocide, and crimes against humanity.
  Despite everything Communist China has done to our Nation and to the 
world, we continue to invest over a trillion dollars into Chinese 
companies listed on our exchanges, to include newly designated Chinese 
military companies like Alibaba.
  I hope that no one who cares about human rights and confronting our 
Nation's foremost enemy would prevent this resolution's passage. We 
cannot afford to abandon our responsibility to our people and to the 
world to denounce the evil agenda of the Chinese Communist Party. I 
hope my colleagues will join me in that effort.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Foreign Relations 
Committee be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now 
proceed to S. Res. 444.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 444) condemning the dictator of the 
     People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, for deceit, 
     undermining prospects for peace and security, and 
     orchestrating crimes against humanity.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the resolution.
  Mr. SCOTT of Florida. I know of no further debate on the resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate?
  Hearing no further debate, the question is on adoption of the 
resolution.
  The resolution (S. Res. 444) was agreed to.
  Mr. SCOTT of Florida. I ask unanimous consent that the preamble be 
agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and 
laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in the Record of 
October 9, 2025, under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Massachusetts.

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