(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee of the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The National People’s Congress (referred to 
in this Act as ‘‘NPC’’) of the PRC has committed 
to pass national security legislation which, if en-
acted, would— 
(A) contravene the will of the people of 
Hong Kong whose constitution, the Basic Law, 
provides in Article 23 that the Legislative 
Council of Hong Kong shall enact legislation re-
lated to national security; 
(B) violate the PRC’s commitments under 
international law, as defined by the Joint Dec-
laration of the Government of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 
the Government of the PRC on the Question of 
Hong Kong (referred to in this Act as ‘‘Joint 
Declaration’’), an international treaty signed on 
December 19, 1984, and entered into force on 
May 27, 1985; and 
(C) cause severe and irreparable damage to 
the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ principle and 
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further erode global confidence in the PRC’s 
commitment to international law. 
(2) The United States has a long and proud 
history as a destination for refugees and asylees flee-
ing persecution based on race, religion, nationality, 
political opinion, or membership in a particular so-
cial group. 
(3) The United States also shares deep social, 
cultural, and economic ties with the people of Hong 
Kong, including a shared commitment to democracy, 
to the rule of law, and to the protection of human 
rights. 
(4) The United States has sheltered, protected, 
and welcomed as American citizens individuals who 
have fled oppression of authoritarian regimes, in-
cluding citizens from the PRC following the violent 
June 4, 1989, crackdown in Tiananmen Square, 
deepening ties between the people of the United 
States and those individuals, regardless of nation-
ality, seeking to contribute to a free, open society 
founded on respect for the rule of law. 
(5) The United States has reaped enormous 
economic, cultural, and strategic benefit from wel-
coming successive generations of scientists, doctors, 
entrepreneurs, artists, intellectuals, and other free-
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dom-loving people fleeing Fascism, Communism, vio-
lent Islamist extremism, and other repressive 
ideologies, including in the case of Nazi Germany, 
the Soviet Union and Soviet-controlled Central Eu-
rope, Cuba, Vietnam, and Iran. 
(6) Offering prospective refuge to those who 
have contributed the most to Hong Kong’s success 
would signal to the Chinese Communist Party that 
repression in Hong Kong would result in losing its 
immense wealth and talent to the United States. 
(7) A mid-2020 Brookings report notes that 
‘‘Chinese officials see the United States’ continued 
ability to attract and retain Chinese talent as a seri-
ous impediment to their technological ambitions’’ 
and a 2009 report of ‘‘Issues in Science and Tech-
nology’’ notes that ‘‘competition for [science and 
technology] brainpower . . . will become one of the 
key defining features of the West’s interactions with 
the PRC over the coming decades.’’ 
(8) A major asymmetric advantage of the 
United States in its long-term strategic competition 
with the Communist Party of China is the ability of 
people from every country in the world, irrespective 
of their race, ethnicity or religion, to immigrate to 
the United States and become American citizens. 
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SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to continue to reaffirm the principles and 
objectives set forth in the United States-Hong Kong 
Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–383), namely 
that— 
(A) the United States has ‘‘a strong inter-
est in the continued vitality, prosperity, and 
stability of Hong Kong’’; 
(B) ‘‘support for democratization is a fun-
damental principle of United States foreign pol-
icy’’ and therefore ‘‘naturally applies to United 
States policy toward Hong Kong’’; 
(C) ‘‘the human rights of the people of 
Hong Kong are of great importance to the 
United States and are directly relevant to 
United States interests in Hong Kong and 
serve as a basis for Hong Kong’s continued eco-
nomic prosperity’’; and 
(D) Hong Kong must remain sufficiently 
autonomous from the PRC to ‘‘justify treat-
ment under a particular law of the United 
States, or any provision thereof, different from 
that accorded the People’s Republic of China’’; 
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(2) to continue to support the high degree of 
autonomy and fundamental rights and freedoms of 
the people of Hong Kong, as enumerated by— 
(A) the Joint Declaration; 
(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; 
(3) to continue to support the democratic aspi-
rations of the people of Hong Kong, including the 
‘‘ultimate aim’’ of the selection of the Chief Execu-
tive and all members of the Legislative Council by 
universal suffrage, as articulated in the Basic Law 
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of 
the PRC (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Basic 
Law’’); 
(4) to urge the Government of the PRC, despite 
its recent actions, to uphold its commitments to 
Hong Kong, including allowing the people of Hong 
Kong to govern Hong Kong with a high degree of 
autonomy and without undue interference, and en-
suring that Hong Kong voters freely enjoy the right 
to elect the Chief Executive and all members of the 
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