IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 160 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the International 
Olympic Committee should rebid the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to 
be hosted by a country that recognizes and respects human rights. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2021 
Mr. PERRY (for himself, Mr. GALLAGHER, Mr. ROY, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. JACK-
SON, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. 
VAN DREW, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. BUDD, and Ms. SALA-
ZAR) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the International Olympic Committee should rebid the 
2022 Winter Olympic Games to be hosted by a country 
that recognizes and respects human rights. 
Whereas the International Olympic Committee has announced 
Beijing, People’s Republic of China, as the host city of 
the 2022 Winter Olympic Games; 
Whereas the Olympic charter states that the goal of 
Olympism is to promote ‘‘a peaceful society concerned 
with the preservation of human dignity’’; 
Whereas, on January 19, 2021, the Department of State de-
termined that the Communist Party of China has com-
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mitted genocide against the predominantly Muslim 
Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
Whereas the 2020 Trafficking in Persons Report of the De-
partment of State relating to the People’s Republic of 
China indicates that— 
(1) authorities in the People’s Republic of China 
have arbitrarily detained more than 1,000,000 ethnic 
Muslims, including Uyghurs, ethnic Hui, ethnic Kazakh, 
and ethnic Kyrgyz individuals, in as many as 1,200 ‘‘vo-
cational training centers’’, which are internment camps 
designed to erase ethnic and religious identities; 
(2) the national household registry system of the 
People’s Republic of China restricts the freedom of rural 
inhabitants to legally change their workplace or resi-
dence, placing the internal migrant population of the 
People’s Republic of China at high risk of forced labor 
in brick kilns, coal mines, and factories; 
(3) the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China subjects Christians and members of other religious 
groups to forced labor in brick kilns, food processing cen-
ters, and factories as part of detention for the purpose 
of ideological indoctrination; and 
(4) the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China provides financial incentives, including subsidies, 
for companies to open factories near the internment 
camps, and local governments receive additional funds 
from the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
for each inmate forced to work in an internment camp; 
Whereas, in June 2020, the Associated Press reported that— 
(1) the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China uses forced birth control, sterilizations, and abor-
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