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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on 
the Question of Hong Kong, done at Beijing on Decem-
ber 19, 1984 (the ‘‘Joint Declaration’’); 
Whereas the arbitrary arrests of peaceful protesters, includ-
ing well-known democracy advocates such as Martin Lee, 
Jimmy Lai, Lee Cheuk Yan, Margaret Ng, Albert Ho, 
Leung Kwok-hung, Au Nok-hin, Figo Chan, and others, 
is reminiscent of the treatment of peaceful protestors in 
mainland China by the Government of China; 
Whereas China’s National People’s Congress has decided to 
impose national security legislation with respect to Hong 
Kong; 
Whereas the implementation of that legislation signals a vio-
lation of China’s commitment to the people of Hong 
Kong to honor ‘‘one country, two systems’’, a severe blow 
to Hong Kong’s autonomy and a violation of the Joint 
Declaration; 
Whereas the United States Secretary of State, pursuant to 
the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (Public 
Law 102–383), has determined that Hong Kong no 
longer manifests a ‘‘high degree of autonomy’’ distinct 
from mainland China; 
Whereas national security laws are used widely in mainland 
China to imprison or arbitrarily detain dissidents, rights 
defenders, civil society advocates, religious leaders and 
adherents, and persons from ethnic minorities; 
Whereas human rights, democracy, and religious freedom ad-
vocates have been imprisoned or arbitrarily detained 
under national security laws in mainland China, including 
Wu Gan, Qin Yongmin, Zhou Shifeng, Yu Wensheng, 
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Wang Yi, and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died in 
state custody nearly three years ago; 
Whereas the United States Congress, particularly in recent 
years, has passed numerous measures articulating the 
longstanding and bipartisan commitment to human rights 
in China, including— 
(1) the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Account-
ability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114– 
328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note); 
(2) the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–330); 
(3) the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy 
Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–76); and 
(4) the bill S. 3744 (116th Congress), the Uyghur 
Human Rights Policy Act; 
Whereas on this day we stand in solidarity with human rights 
lawyers, labor and free speech advocates, religious 
groups, and ethnic minorities in China, such as Tibetans, 
and also Uyghurs and other predominately Muslim ethnic 
minorities who face mass internment and surveillance, 
forced labor and family separations, and who are often 
forced to renounce their faith; and 
Whereas on this day, we remember the words of the late 
Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who said there is ‘‘no force 
that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and 
China will in the end become a nation ruled by law, 
where human rights reign supreme’’: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) will commemorate the Tiananmen protests 
and their violent repression at least until such time 
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as Chinese citizens are able to do so freely and pub-
licly everywhere across their country; 
(2) expresses sympathy to the families of those 
killed, tortured, imprisoned, or exiled for their par-
ticipation in the pro-democracy demonstrations dur-
ing the spring of 1989; 
(3) calls on the Government of China to allow 
those Tiananmen demonstration participants cur-
rently living in exile in the United States and other 
countries to return to China without risk of reper-
cussions or retribution; 
(4) condemns the use of violence, torture, and 
arbitrary detention as a means to repress the legiti-
mate aspirations of the people of China to speak and 
associate freely, including to petition the government 
and challenge the policies and ideology of the Chi-
nese Communist Party; 
(5) calls on the Government of China to release 
all prisoners of conscience, including prisoners de-
tained because of their participation in Tiananmen 
Square commemorations or actions calling for the 
type of political reforms and rights protections pur-
sued by those who gathered in Tiananmen Square in 
1989 and including over one million Uyghurs and 
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other predominately Muslim ethnic minorities in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
(6) condemns any forced imposition of national 
security legislation with respect to Hong Kong; 
(7) calls upon the Administration to use all 
available authorities to protect United States inter-
ests in Hong Kong and the freedoms of the Hong 
Kong people, including— 
(A) encouraging the Standing Committee 
of the National People’s Congress of China ‘‘to 
work with the Hong Kong [Special Administra-
tive Region] Government and the people of 
Hong Kong to find a mutually acceptable ac-
commodation that will honor China’s inter-
national obligations under the UN-filed Sino- 
British Joint Declaration’’, as called for by the 
Joint Statement of the Governments of the 
United States, Australia, Canada and the 
United Kingdom; and 
(B) using all available diplomatic means 
and targeted sanctions to encourage the repeal 
of the national security legislation adopted by 
the Standing Committee of the National Peo-
ple’s Congress of China on May 28, 2020; 
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(8) calls upon the Administration to encourage 
an international coalition to demand that China ad-
here to its international agreements and human 
rights obligations; and 
(9) calls upon Hong Kong Chief Executive 
Carrie Lam to allow the Hong Kong people to exer-
cise their ‘‘freedoms of speech, of the press and of 
publication; freedom of association, of assembly, of 
procession and of demonstration’’, as guaranteed in 
Article 27 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Spe-
cial Administrative Region of the People’s Republic 
of China. 
Æ 
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