•HRES 636 IH 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China’s 
undermining of democracy in Hong Kong has ramifica-
tions for the international order, including with regard to 
the future of Taiwan; 
Whereas the Hong Kong Government has conducted a public 
relations campaign to convince global business leaders 
that Hong Kong remains a critical and attractive inter-
national financial center, while simultaneously under-
mining the independence of institutions that encouraged 
its growth over the past several decades; 
Whereas Hong Kong still maintains a separate voting share 
from the People’s Republic of China at many multilateral 
organizations—including the Asia Pacific Economic Co-
operation forum, the Financial Action Task Force, the 
International Olympic Committee, and the World Trade 
Organization—effectively doubling the People’s Republic 
of China’s voting power at these critical institutions; and 
Whereas the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act 
(Public Law 116–76; 22 U.S.C. 5701 note), signed into 
law in November 2019, requires the President to use 
sanctions to promote accountability for those responsible 
for certain conduct that undermines fundamental free-
doms and autonomy in Hong Kong: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China’s ‘‘Hong Kong national security 
law’’ and related human rights abuses; 
(2) urges all governments that value democracy 
or autonomy to hold the Chinese Communist Party 
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accountable for its destruction of Hong Kong’s au-
tonomy, rule of law, and freedoms; 
(3) supports the people of Hong Kong as they 
fight to exercise fundamental rights and freedoms, 
as enumerated by— 
(A) the Joint Declaration of the Govern-
ment of the 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 December 19, 
1984; 
(B) the International Covenant on Civil 
and Political Rights, done at New York Decem-
ber 19, 1966; and 
(C) the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, done at Paris December 10, 1948; 
(4) condemns the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China’s practice of bringing false and 
politically motivated charges, such as fraud, against 
Hong Kongers in order to tarnish their reputations 
in advance of their national security law trials; 
(5) calls upon the Hong Kong Government to 
immediately drop all sedition and national security 
law-related charges, including those against the 
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Hong Kong 47, Jimmy Lai, and Cardinal Zen, and 
free all defendants immediately; 
(6) expresses extreme concern about the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China’s State- 
directed theft of Apple Daily, and holds that Hong 
Kong no longer has credibility as an international 
business center due to the erosion of the regulatory 
and legal environments that have promoted its eco-
nomic growth for decades; 
(7) encourages the United States Government 
and other governments to take steps at multilateral 
institutions to ensure that voting procedures recog-
nize that there is no longer a meaningful distinction 
between Hong Kong and mainland China; and 
(8) urges the United States Government to use 
all available tools, including those authorized by the 
Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, in 
response to the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China’s actions in Hong Kong. 
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