•HRES 1370 IH 
People’s Republic of China is a central goal of United 
States foreign policy towards China; 
Whereas increased protection and stronger guarantees of 
human rights and political freedoms in the People’s Re-
public of China would improve the relationship between 
the United States and the People’s Republic of China; 
Whereas the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be held from 
August 8, 2008, through August 24, 2008; 
Whereas the United States should continue to advance its 
policy goal of improved human rights and political free-
doms in the People’s Republic of China in the context of 
the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games; 
Whereas all Olympic athletes deserve to participate in a com-
petition that takes place in an atmosphere that honors 
the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
committed to protect human rights, religious freedom, 
freedom of movement, and freedom of the press as part 
of its conditions for being named to host the Beijing 
2008 Olympic Games; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
issued temporary regulations promising foreign media 
representatives covering the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 
that they could travel freely, with the exception of in the 
Tibet Autonomous Region, and did not require advance 
permission before interviewing Chinese citizens during 
the period of January 1, 2007, to October 18, 2008; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
has failed to abide by many provisions of those regula-
tions and has restricted foreign media by— 
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(1) detaining 15 journalists in 2007 for activities 
permitted by the new regulations; 
(2) refusing to allow foreign media representatives 
access to Tibetan areas of China, including those areas 
outside of the Tibet Autonomous Region covered by the 
pledge of free access, to report on the March 2008 pro-
tests and the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China’s violent crackdown against Tibetans in those 
areas; and 
(3) interfering with foreign media representatives 
and their Chinese employees who were hired within 
China, such that 40 percent of foreign correspondents 
have reported government interference with their at-
tempts to cover the news in China; 
Whereas in advance of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, 
there are widespread reports that the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China has refused to grant visas or 
entry to individuals because of their political views, be-
liefs, writings, association, religion, and ethnicity; 
Whereas Chinese citizens and foreign visitors in China for the 
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not have free access to 
information if the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China continues to engage in blocking of overseas 
websites and other forms of Internet filtering and censor-
ship; 
Whereas the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not take place 
in an atmosphere of freedom if the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China continues to limit the free-
doms of speech, press, religion, movement, association, 
and assembly of its citizens and visitors, including polit-
ical dissidents, protesters, petitioners, the disabled, reli-
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gious activists, minorities, the homeless, and other people 
it considers undesirable; 
Whereas despite the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China’s repeated pledges to the international community 
that the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS are a 
national priority, HIV/AIDS activists and their organiza-
tions remain targets for repression and harassment by 
Chinese authorities; 
Whereas in the period preceding the Olympics Games, Chi-
nese security forces have detained, threatened, and har-
assed HIV/AIDS and hepatitis advocates; shut down con-
ferences and meetings of Chinese and foreign HIV/AIDS 
experts; and closed AIDS organizations; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
continues to ignore its international commitments to ref-
ugee protection, as evidenced by film footage recording 
the shooting death of a Tibetan nun by Chinese border 
guards in October of 2006 and human rights groups’ re-
ports citing increased bounties offered for turning in 
North Korean refugees in 2008 to discourage border- 
crossing prior to the Olympic Games; 
Whereas workers in the People’s Republic of China are often 
exposed to exploitative and unsafe working conditions, in-
cluding excessive exposure to dangerous machinery and 
chemicals; 
Whereas according to Amnesty International, some Chinese 
companies withhold wages from workers for months while 
retaining their ID cards to prevent them from securing 
other work and, in the city of Shenzhen alone, an average 
of 13 factory workers a day lose a finger or an arm, and 
every 41⁄2 days a worker dies in a workplace accident; 
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Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
has reportedly increased its persecution of the Falun 
Gong prior to the Olympic Games; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
remains unwilling to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama 
to China to hold direct talks on a resolution on the issue 
of Tibet, despite calls from the international community 
to do so before the Olympic Games; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
has had discussions with the representatives of the Dalai 
Lama, but has been unwilling to engage in substantive 
discussions on the future of Tibet and Tibetans in China; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China’s 
continued economic and political support for foreign gov-
ernments that commit gross human rights violations, in-
cluding those of Sudan and Burma, contradicts the spirit 
of freedom and openness of the Olympic Games; and 
Whereas it is the desire of the House of Representatives that 
the People’s Republic of China take the specific actions 
set forth herein so that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 
are successful and reflect positively on its host country: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to immediately end abuses of the 
human rights of its citizens, to cease repression of 
Tibetan and Uighur citizens, and to end its support 
for the Governments of Sudan and Burma to ensure 
that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games take place in 
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an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of 
freedom and openness; 
(2) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to immediately release all those im-
prisoned or detained for nonviolently exercising their 
political and religious rights and their right to free 
expression, such as Hu Jia, who have been impris-
oned, detained, or harassed for seeking to hold 
China accountable to commitments to improve 
human rights conditions announced when bidding to 
host the Olympic Games, embodied in China’s own 
laws and regulations, and in international agree-
ments; 
(3) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to honor its commitment to freedom 
of the press for foreign reporters in China before 
and during the Olympic Games, to make those com-
mitments permanent, and publicly to guarantee an 
immediate end to the detention, harassment, and in-
timidation of both foreign and domestic reporters; 
(4) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to permit visitors to China, including 
through the issuance of visas, for the period sur-
rounding the Olympics, regardless of religious back-
ground, belief, or political opinion; 
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(5) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to guarantee freedom of movement 
within China during the period surrounding the 
Olympics for all visitors, participants, and journal-
ists visiting China for the Olympics, and such free-
dom of movement should include the freedom to visit 
Tibet, Xinjiang, China’s border regions, and all 
other areas of China without restriction and without 
special permits or advance notice; 
(6) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to guarantee access to information 
by Chinese citizens and foreign visitors, including 
full access to domestic and overseas broadcasts, 
print media, and websites that in the past may have 
been excluded, censored, jammed, or blocked; 
(7) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to permit political dissidents, pro-
testers, petitioners, religious activists, minorities, the 
disabled, the homeless, and others to maintain their 
homes, usual locations, jobs, freedom of movement, 
and freedom to engage in peaceful activities during 
the period surrounding the Olympics; 
(8) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to end the exploitative and dan-
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•HRES 1370 IH 
gerous conditions faced by Chinese workers in many 
state enterprises and other commercial entities; 
(9) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to begin earnest negotiations, with-
out preconditions, directly with His Holiness the 
Dalai Lama or his representatives, on the future of 
Tibet to provide for a mutually agreeable solution 
that addresses the legitimate grievances of, and pro-
vides genuine autonomy for, the Tibetan people; 
(10) calls on the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China to end its political, economic, and 
military support for the Government of Sudan until 
the violent attacks in Darfur have ceased and the 
Sudanese Government has allowed for the full de-
ployment of the United Nations-African Union Mis-
sion peacekeeping force in Darfur; 
(11) calls on the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China to end its political, economic, and 
military support for the Government of Burma until 
democracy is restored in Burma, human rights 
abuses have ceased, and Aung San Suu Kyi and 
other political prisoners of conscience are released; 
and 
(12) calls on the President to make a strong 
public statement on China’s human rights situation 
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prior to his departure to Beijing for the Olympic 
Games, to make a similar statement in Beijing and 
meet with the families of jailed prisoners of con-
science, and to seek to visit Tibet and Xinjiang while 
in China to attend the Olympic Games. 
Æ 
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