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worsening violence, and caused severe injuries to pro-
testers; 
Whereas, on June 16, 2019, approximately 2,000,000 people 
peacefully gathered in Admiralty, equivalent to 25 per-
cent of the population, the largest protest in Hong 
Kong’s history; 
Whereas, on July 21, 2019, a self-professed progovernment 
mob of men violently attacked protestors, innocent by-
standers, and journalists with sticks and metal bars in 
Yuen Long, which resulted in the hospitalization of 45 
people, with 1 person in critical condition; 
Whereas the Royal Hong Kong Police have failed to take ac-
tion against the progovernment ‘‘triad’’ gangs, suggesting 
the police may be complicit in their actions; 
Whereas the protestors’ demands include: the complete with-
drawal of the bill to amend the extradition bill; the imple-
mentation of universal adult suffrage in the election of 
Chief Executive and the Legislative Council; the estab-
lishment of an independent commission to investigate 
whether police have used excessive force; the declassifica-
tion of the protest as a riot; and the dropping of all 
charges against persons who did not personally engage in 
violence; 
Whereas, on July 27, 2019, 9 people were injured when po-
lice fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Yuen Long 
who were protesting the July 21, 2019, triad gangs’ vio-
lent attacks and the lack of a police response to them; 
Whereas, on July 29, 2019, China’s spokesman for the State 
Council’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office issued a 
statement referring to the protesters as ‘‘radical elements 
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committing evil and criminal acts’’, and applauding the 
police for sticking to their posts; 
Whereas, on July 30, 2019, China’s Foreign Ministry said 
the pro-democracy protests are the ‘‘work of the United 
States’’, alleging that there had been unprecedented lev-
els of contact between prodemocracy leaders and the 
United States; 
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has expressed its 
‘‘strong indignation’’ and has called the protests ‘‘abso-
lutely intolerable’’, raising fears that the Party may use 
force in an attempt to violently suppress the protestors; 
Whereas, on August 5, 2019, teachers, aviation workers, fi-
nance employees, and civil servants went on strike across 
7 districts, the largest citywide strike in decades, which 
evolved into a wave of demonstrations, and resulted in 
the police firing 800 tear gas rounds to clear the 
protestors, almost as many as were used in the previous 
8 weeks; 
Whereas, on August 5, 2019, a self-professed pro-government 
mob of men violently attacked demonstrators with sticks 
and metal bars in North Point after the demonstrators 
were dispersed by police from Admiralty, and again the 
police did not respond to the ambush; 
Whereas, on August 6, 2019, a Chinese Communist Party of-
ficial threatened the demonstrators by stating that, 
‘‘those who play with fire will perish by it’’ and ‘‘as for 
their [the demonstrators,] punishment, it’s only a matter 
of time’’; and 
Whereas, on August 7, 2019, pro-Beijing media began pub-
lishing articles accusing Julie Eadeh, the Political Coun-
selor at the United States Consulate General in Hong 
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Kong, of subversion, as well as publicly identifying her 
husband and family: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) calls on the Government of Hong Kong to 
begin to undertake steps towards negotiations to ad-
dress the demonstrators’ 5 central demands: the 
complete withdrawal of the bill to amend the Fugi-
tive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in 
Criminal Matters Ordinance laws (commonly known 
as the extradition bill); the implementation of uni-
versal adult suffrage; the establishment of an inde-
pendent investigation; the declassification of the pro-
test as a riot; and the dropping of all charges 
against persons arrested during the protests; 
(2) condemns the Hong Kong police’s use of 
force against the demonstrations in a manner that 
violates citizens’ rights of freedom of expression and 
peaceful assembly; 
(3) calls on the Administration to ensure that 
munitions and crowd-control equipment the United 
States sells to the Hong Kong police aren’t used to 
repress peaceful protests in Hong Kong; 
(4) condemns the efforts by the Hong Kong 
and Chinese Governments to characterize the pro-
tests as ‘‘riots’’ and to blame the United States for 
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involvement in the political instability they alone cre-
ated; 
(5) shares the concerns of the people of Hong 
Kong that the lack of procedural protections in the 
proposed amendments to the extradition bill, which 
would negatively impact the territory’s longstanding 
protections of human rights, fundamental freedoms, 
and democratic values as enshrined in the Basic 
Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984; 
(6) recognizes the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ 
framework and the Basic Law afford Hong Kong a 
high degree of autonomy with respect to economic 
and trade matters, and rule of law; 
(7) condemns the pro-Beijing media for tar-
geting Julie Eadeh, the Political Counselor at the 
United States Consulate General in Hong Kong, and 
her family; and 
(8) calls on the Government of Hong Kong and 
all governments— 
(A) to protect the rights of freedom of ex-
pression and peaceful assembly; 
(B) to condemn all acts of violence against 
those seeking to further their democratic rights; 
and 
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(C) to refrain from the use of violence. 
Æ 
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