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around the world’’, emphasizing that ‘‘any kind of har-
assment’’ toward academics, scholars, journalists, or 
other individuals is ‘‘unacceptable’’, and noting that, ‘‘ev-
eryone has a right to express their point of view’’; 
Whereas the PRC Government’s harassment of United States 
scholars whose research the PRC disagrees with and the 
PRC Government’s efforts to intimidate other United 
States and PRC scholars into distancing themselves from 
such scholars creates a chilling effect on United States- 
PRC academic exchange and research; 
Whereas PRC restrictions on visas for scholars whose re-
search the PRC disagrees with limit visits and field re-
search of United States scholars in China that promote 
global understanding of the PRC and the bilateral rela-
tionship; 
Whereas, in 2023 and 2024, the Hong Kong police put 19 
Hong Kong democracy activists living overseas, including 
a United States citizen, on a wanted list and offered 
bounties for information leading to their capture, and in 
2024 cancelled the passports of 7 of them; 
Whereas, according to the Washington Post, in November 
2023, the PRC consulate in Los Angeles paid for the 
hotel rooms and meals of pro-PRC counter-protesters 
who turned out on the streets of San Francisco during 
a visit by Xi Jinping, and hired private security guards 
for the visit; 
Whereas, during PRC leader Xi’s 2023 visit, some counter- 
protesters and consulate-hired security guards reportedly 
physically harassed and intimidated protesters opposed to 
Beijing’s policies who were exercising their First Amend-
ment rights; 
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Whereas consulate-hired security guards were reportedly in-
structed by the PRC consulate to ‘‘protect ‘our’ friends’’, 
with one guard stating that the use of violence ‘‘was al-
ways insinuated’’; 
Whereas, ahead of Xi’s departure from San Francisco, Chemi 
Lhamo, a Tibetan activist holding a Tibetan flag, was 
pressed against the railing of a bridge, unable to extract 
herself from a crowd of PRC supporters that included 2 
PRC consular officials, and at least 8 men from the same 
crowd reportedly attacked 2 Tibetan teenagers later that 
day; 
Whereas, according to the advocacy organization Freedom 
House, the Government of the PRC is increasingly dis-
regarding the laws of the United States in order to 
threaten, harass, surveil, stalk, intimidate, and, in some 
cases, plot physical harm to individuals across the United 
States; 
Whereas, between 2014 and April 2023, Freedom House cat-
aloged 253 instances globally of direct, physical attacks 
originating from the PRC, with the PRC accounting for 
30 percent of all recorded incidents, far more than any 
other country: 
Whereas, in 2023, Freedom House reported that ‘‘China is 
the world’s leading perpetrator of transnational repres-
sion, employing a wide array of tactics and targeting both 
groups and individuals’’; 
Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation defines 
transnational repression as when foreign governments 
reach beyond their borders to intimidate, silence, coerce, 
harass, or harm members of their diaspora and exile 
communities in the United States; 
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Whereas, in April 2023, the Department of Justice charged 
40 officers of China’s Ministry of Public Security and 2 
officials of the Cyberspace Administration of China with 
engaging in transnational repression schemes targeting 
American citizens and lawful permanent residents; and 
Whereas then-Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen 
of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division 
stated at the time, ‘‘These cases demonstrate the lengths 
to which the PRC government will go to silence and har-
ass U.S. persons who exercise their fundamental rights to 
speak out against PRC oppression’’, and that ‘‘these ac-
tions violate our laws and are an affront to our demo-
cratic values and basic human rights.’’: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly condemns the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) efforts to sup-
press free speech, assembly, and academic freedom 
in the United States, including through harassment 
and intimidation; 
(2) calls on United States Federal and local law 
enforcement agencies to enhance vigilance and take 
swift action against the PRC’s attempts to extend 
its intolerance of dissent into the United States and 
to target people exercising their First Amendment 
rights on American soil; 
(3) urges United States academic institutions 
and think tanks to protect academic freedom by re-
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sisting pressure from foreign entities, including the 
PRC, aimed at stifling open scholarly research and 
debate; 
(4) reaffirms the United States commitment to 
defend the rights of individuals to express them-
selves freely without fear of retaliation, both domes-
tically and globally; 
(5) calls on the executive branch, including the 
Secretary of State, to raise in diplomatic engage-
ments with the PRC Government incidents of PRC 
harassment and intimidation intended to limit free 
speech, highlighting specific cases of intimidation of 
individuals intended to stifle free speech in the 
United States; 
(6) advocates for international collaboration 
with like-minded allies and partners to highlight and 
address the threat of transnational repression and 
establish global norms to combat it; and 
(7) calls on United States representatives to 
international organizations to use their voice and 
vote 
to 
support 
resolutions 
condemning 
the 
transnational suppression of free speech and de-
manding accountability. 
Æ 
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