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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3737 
To address Chinese Communist Party efforts to censor the 1989 Tiananmen 
Square Massacre, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 4, 2025 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees 
on the Judiciary, and House Administration, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To address Chinese Communist Party efforts to censor the 
1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tiananmen Massacre 
Transparency and Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) June 4, 2025, is the 36th anniversary of 
the brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations for 
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democratic reforms held on Tiananmen Square in 
central Beijing. 
(2) For the past 36 years, the Chinese Com-
munist Party and the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China has— 
(A) censored any mention of the brutal 
crackdown on peaceful demonstrations held in 
Tiananmen Square in central Beijing and in an 
estimated 400 other cities in the People’s Re-
public of China; 
(B) banned schools from teaching about 
the pro-democracy protests of 1989 and their 
brutal suppression on June 4th of that year by 
the People’s Liberation Army (PLA); 
(C) blocked internet search terms and re-
moved content related to the June 4, 1989, 
crackdown; 
(D) disappeared the person known as 
‘‘Tank Man’’ because of his courageous attempt 
to stop the advance of PLA tanks; 
(E) prevented the Tiananmen Mother’s 
group from publicly mourning or remembering 
their family members killed during the crack-
down; 
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(F) arbitrarily detained individuals who 
call for a full, public, and independent account-
ing of the wounded, dead, and imprisoned for 
participating in the spring 1989 demonstra-
tions; 
(G) supported the Government of the 
Hong Kong Special Administration Region’s 
suppression of the annual Tiananmen vigil 
which was, until 2020, the only commemoration 
allowed on the People’s Republic of China terri-
tory; 
(H) backed the arrest the organizers and 
participants of the annual vigil in Hong Kong, 
including Chow Hang-tung, Jimmy Lai, Joshua 
Wong, Gwyneth Ho, and Lee Cheuk-yan; 
(I) supported criminal schemes to silence 
critics of the People’s Republic of China in the 
United States according to Department of Jus-
tice indictments, including seeking to destroy a 
California sculpture park that contained statues 
commemorating the Tiananmen Massacre and 
plotting to disrupt the New York political cam-
paign of a former Tiananmen student leader; 
(J) hid the fact that an estimated 
1,000,000 people, from all walks of life, includ-
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ing students, government employees, journal-
ists, workers, police officers, and members of 
the Armed Forces called for democratic reforms 
in 1989—seeking the elimination of corruption, 
accelerated economic and political reforms, pro-
tection of human rights, particularly the free-
doms of expression and assembly—concerns 
that remain pertinent in China today; and 
(K) never acknowledged the use of exces-
sive force nor apologized for the deaths and in-
juries caused by ordering the armed PLA 
troops and tanks into Beijing. 
(3) The United States Congress took steps, 
over the past 36 years, to mark the Tiananmen 
demonstrations and their violent suppression because 
of the profound impact the event has had on United 
States-People’s Republic of Chin relations and be-
cause commemorating Tiananmen was censored and 
banned in China and now in Hong Kong. 
(4) Section 7031(c) of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), as carried 
forward by Public Law 119–4, authorizes the Sec-
retary of State to deny entry into the United States 
‘‘officials of foreign governments and their imme-
diate family members about whom the Secretary of 
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State has credible information have been involved, 
directly or indirectly, in . . . a gross violation of 
human rights’’. 
(5) Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act makes inadmissible any foreign 
person ‘‘whose entry or proposed activities in the 
United States the Secretary of State has reasonable 
ground to believe would have potentially serious ad-
verse foreign policy consequences for the United 
States’’. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to— 
(1) mark the solemn significance of the 1989 
demonstrations and the impact the Tiananmen Mas-
sacre has had on United States-People’s Republic of 
China relations; 
(2) create strategies to address the Chinese 
Communist Party’s censorship and restrictions on 
the free flow of news and information that limit 
what the Chinese people know about the Party’s ac-
tions and what the world knows about China; 
(3) seek to secure the release of Jimmy Lai and 
any others jailed for participating in Tiananmen 
Massacre vigils; 
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(4) use existing sanctions authorities to hold ac-
countable the People’s Republic of China officials 
engaged in censorship actions, particularly those tar-
geting United States technology platforms and 
United States citizens; 
(5) protect United States citizens and legal 
residents, including those seeking within the United 
States to commemorate the Tiananmen Massacre or 
those publicly calling for democratic reforms in 
China, from intimidation or harassment by the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China or indi-
viduals acting on its behalf; 
(6) pursue criminal prosecutions under United 
States law to hold accountable the Government of 
the People’s Republic of China and those individuals 
acting on its behalf for engaging in transnational re-
pression targeting United States citizens and legal 
residents; 
(7) raise in diplomatic exchanges with officials 
of the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China, as appropriate, the economic and strategic 
benefits for United States-China relations of trans-
parency and an end to censorship, including about 
the Tiananmen Massacre; and 
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(8) use the voice, vote, and influence of the 
United States at the United Nations to— 
(A) address censorship and restrictions 
placed on the free flow of news and information 
by the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China; 
(B) condemn the transnational repression 
campaigns conducted by the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China targeting United 
States citizens and legal residents; and 
(C) seek decisions by the Working Group 
on Arbitrary Detention on the cases of individ-
uals unjustly detained by the Government of 
the People’s Republic of China and the Govern-
ment of the Hong Kong Special Administration 
Region. 
SEC. 4. TIANANMEN MASSACRE EXHIBITION. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Librarian of Con-
gress should work with relevant nongovernment organiza-
tions, such as the Victims of Communism Memorial Foun-
dation and June 4th Memorial Association, to stage exhib-
its, in person and online, to showcase the history of the 
Tiananmen protests, highlight the stories of Tiananmen 
Massacre survivors who are now United States citizens, 
and demonstrate the enduring legacy on United States- 
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People’s Republic of China relations of the pro-democracy 
demonstrations and their violent suppression. 
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