IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 162 
Urging that the International Olympic Committee rebid the 2022 Olympic 
Winter Games, and expressing the sense of Congress that the United 
States Olympic & Paralympic Committee should not participate if the 
Games are held in the People’s Republic of China and that the United 
States Government should lead an international boycott if the Games 
are held in the People’s Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2021 
Mr. WALTZ (for himself, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, and Mr. KATKO) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Urging that the International Olympic Committee rebid the 
2022 Olympic Winter Games, and expressing the sense 
of Congress that the United States Olympic & 
Paralympic Committee should not participate if the 
Games are held in the People’s Republic of China and 
that the United States Government should lead an inter-
national boycott if the Games are held in the People’s 
Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
Whereas, in 2015, the International Olympic Committee an-
nounced Beijing, the capital city of the People’s Republic 
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of China, as the host city of the 2022 Olympic Winter 
Games; 
Whereas the Olympic charter states the goal of Olympism is 
to promote ‘‘a peaceful society concerned with the preser-
vation of human dignity’’; 
Whereas, according to the September 2020 House of Rep-
resentatives China Task Force Report, the Government 
of China is the leading human rights abuser in the world, 
depriving 1,400,000,000 human beings of their funda-
mental rights; 
Whereas, since 2017, the Government of China has detained 
and persecuted up to 1,800,000 Turkic Muslims, includ-
ing ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz, in ‘‘political 
re-education’’ centers, and many detainees who have not 
‘‘graduated’’ from the facilities have been convicted of 
formal crimes and sentenced to prison terms; 
Whereas detained and imprisoned Muslim minorities in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are held 
arbitrarily and without due process, coerced to disavow 
religious beliefs and cultural practices, forced to work in 
factories, deprived of food and other essential needs, and 
subjected to physical abuse, including torture and alleged 
organ harvesting; 
Whereas the Government of China is implementing a policy 
of employing large numbers of Uyghurs, including former 
detainees, in labor-intensive factories in Xinjiang and 
elsewhere in China under forced labor conditions; 
Whereas the Government of China has implemented policies 
against minority groups in the XUAR to lower birth 
rates, including forced abortions, sterilizations, and con-
traception; 
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Whereas according to the Australian Strategic Policy Insti-
tute, an estimated 8,500 mosques have been demolished 
in the XUAR, and nearly 30 percent of Islamic shrines, 
cemeteries, and other sites of religious importance in the 
region have been damaged or destroyed, mostly since 
2017; 
Whereas the annual report of the Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China for 2020 indicates— 
(1) the Government of China and the Chinese Com-
munist Party (CCP) have taken unprecedented steps in 
the last year to extend their repressive policies through 
censorship, intimidation, and the detention of individuals 
and groups for exercising their fundamental human 
rights, especially in the XUAR and Hong Kong; 
(2) in XUAR, it is now estimated that up to 1.8 mil-
lion Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, and others have 
been arbitrarily detained in a system of extrajudicial 
mass internment camps where they are subjected to 
forced labor, torture, and political indoctrination; 
(3) forced labor in the XUAR is widespread and sys-
tematic and exists within the mass internment camps and 
elsewhere throughout the region, as part of a targeted 
campaign of repression against Turkic and Muslim mi-
norities; 
(4) detention of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, 
and others in mass internment camps in the XUAR since 
around April 2017, and authorities have also increasingly 
sentenced ethnic minority individuals to lengthy prison 
terms for political reasons since 2017; 
(5) in Hong Kong, the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ 
framework has been dismantled, severely undermining 
the rule of law and respect for human rights that the ter-
ritory has long enjoyed, and authorities arrested pro-
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democracy leaders, prevented journalists from reporting, 
applied political pressure on the judiciary, and allowed 
the Hong Kong Police Force to grow increasingly abusive 
toward nonviolent protesters; and 
(6) the Government of China and CCP have further 
intensified campaigns that aim to bring religion in China 
under closer official control, and authorities have ex-
panded campaigns to target, control, and surveil not only 
religions deemed ‘‘foreign’’ like Christianity, Islam, and 
Tibetan Buddhism, but also traditional Chinese religions; 
Whereas Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on 
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno-
cide, which both the United States and China have rati-
fied, defines genocide as ‘‘any of the following acts com-
mitted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a na-
tional, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) kill-
ing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or 
mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately in-
flicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring 
about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) im-
posing measures intended to prevent births within the 
group; [or] (e) forcibly transferring children of the group 
to another group.’’; 
Whereas, on January 19, 2021, the Department of State de-
termined that the Government of China, under the direc-
tion and control of the CCP, ‘‘has committed genocide 
against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other 
ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang’’, and on 
the same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed, 
stating, ‘‘forcing men, women and children into con-
centration camps, trying to in effect re-educate them to 
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be adherents to the Chinese Communist Party—all of 
that speaks to an effort to commit genocide’’; 
Whereas, in June 2020, the legislature of China passed a na-
tional security law for Hong Kong restricting basic polit-
ical rights and authorizing severe punishments for anyone 
inside or outside Hong Kong found guilty of broad vague-
ly defined crimes, effectively ending the longstanding 
‘‘one country, two systems’’ policy; 
Whereas, in September 2020, the House Foreign Affairs 
Committee Minority Staff Report on the origins of the 
COVID–19 global pandemic found that— 
(1) authorities in China harassed, detained, and dis-
appeared individuals who told the truth about the CCP’s 
handling of the COVID–19 pandemic; 
(2) during the early outbreak of the COVID–19 pan-
demic, the Government of China failed to meet an inter-
national legal requirement to inform the World Health 
Organization of the COVID–19 outbreak in Wuhan, 
Hubei Province, China; 
(3) during the early stages of the COVID–19 pan-
demic, the Government of China knew of the deadly 
human-to-human transmission capabilities of the virus 
and took steps to hide it from the public and global com-
munity; and 
(4) in February 2020, the Government of China na-
tionalized their medical supply chain to stockpile personal 
protective equipment and stop foreign exports to other 
countries battling the COVID–19 pandemic; 
Whereas the Department of State’s 2020 Trafficking in Per-
sons Report (TIP) relating to the People’s Republic of 
China— 
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