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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 752 

Condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of forced labor and other 

coercive measures to destroy religious freedom in Tibet. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 22 (legislative day, OCTOBER 19), 2020 

Mr. HAWLEY (for himself, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. YOUNG, Mrs. LOEFFLER, Mr. 

CASSIDY, Ms. MCSALLY, and Mr. LANKFORD) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of forced 

labor and other coercive measures to destroy religious 

freedom in Tibet. 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has long persecuted 

Tibetans for their religious beliefs, including by illegitimately claiming authority to designate the Dalai Lama’s 

successor, destroying religious institutions, and arbitrarily detaining, disappearing, and torturing Tibetans in 

order to compel adherence to ‘‘normal religious activities’’, as sanctioned by the Party; 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has launched a policy 

of Sinicization of Tibetans and escalated its attacks on 

Tibetans by removing Tibetan farmers and herders from 

their land, compelling them to cede control of their land 


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and herds to state authorities, transferring them to state 

facilities where they are subjected to forced labor training 

programs, political indoctrination, and other abuses, and 

sending them to state-assigned jobs in Tibet and other 

parts of China, often far from their families and communities; 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party views forced labor 

and other coercive measures as acceptable practices for 

strengthening the Chinese economy, while simultaneously 

suppressing or eliminating religious and ethnic groups 

that it views as inherently threatening to its rule and 

other political ambitions; 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party’s actions in Tibet, 

like its actions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and other parts of China, reflect the Party’s belief 

that might makes right and its determination to use 

every measure at its disposal, no matter how heinous, to 

consolidate power and advance its interests; and 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party believes that might 

makes right not just domestically, but also in international relations, as evidenced by its actions in the Taiwan Strait, the South and East China Seas, along the 

Sino-Indian border, and in cyberspace, as well as its use 

of economic threats to silence or otherwise compel nations, businesses, and individuals to accede to its demands throughout the Indo-Pacific region and beyond: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns the Chinese Communist Party’s 

3 campaign against religious freedom in Tibet, includ4 ing its plainly illegitimate efforts to designate the 


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1 next Dalai Lama, which is a matter that should be 

2 determined solely within the Tibetan Buddhist faith 

3 community; 

4 (2) calls for an investigation into the Chinese 

5 Communist Party’s use of forced labor, in addition 

6 to other coercive measures, to force Tibetans to 

7 practice their faith in a manner compliant with the 

8 Party’s interpretation of ‘‘normal religious activi9 ties’’; 

10 (3) calls on United States companies to scruti11 nize their supply chains and divest of suppliers and 

12 other partners that use Tibetan or other forced labor 

13 programs or are unable to certify that they do not 

14 use Tibetan or other forced labor; 

15 (4) calls on the United States Government to 

16 proactively support, as per the Tibetan Policy Act of 

17 2002 (subtitle B of title VI of division A of Public 

18 Law 107–228; 22 U.S.C. 6901 note), the Dalai 

19 Lama’s call for negotiations to resolve the issue of 

20 Tibet, including by preserving religious freedom and 

21 Tibetan labor rights; and 

22 (5) encourages all nations to condemn the Chi23 nese Communist Party’s attempts to impose its will 


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1 on others, both at home and abroad, and stand to2 gether against the Party’s hegemonic agenda. 

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