Title: Condemning China for continuing to hold its "developing-nation" status in the World Trade Organization, its continued human rights violations, its misinformation with respect to poverty, its dishonest lending practices, and its censorship of free speech.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This resolution condemns China for continuing to hold its developing-nation status in the World Trade Organization. It also condemns China for its (1) continued human rights violations, (2) misinformation with respect to poverty, (3) dishonest lending practices, and (4) censorship of free speech.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 929 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 929

   Condemning China for continuing to hold its ``developing-nation'' 
  status in the World Trade Organization, its continued human rights 
 violations, its misinformation with respect to poverty, its dishonest 
         lending practices, and its censorship of free speech.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2022

 Mrs. Steel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Condemning China for continuing to hold its ``developing-nation'' 
  status in the World Trade Organization, its continued human rights 
 violations, its misinformation with respect to poverty, its dishonest 
         lending practices, and its censorship of free speech.

Whereas the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced on November 23, 2020, that 
        it had eradicated extreme poverty by the end of 2020;
Whereas the CPC announced, ``through eight years of hard work, China achieved 
        the goal of eliminating extreme poverty--a key goal for the new era of 
        building socialism with Chinese characteristics'';
Whereas the State Department updated the Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory 
        in response to the CPC and their ongoing genocide and crimes against 
        humanity in Xinjiang and the growing evidence of its use of forced labor 
        there;
Whereas the World Bank considers China an upper-middle-income country;
Whereas Chinese Government officials are on record stating that, ``There are 
        still some 600 million people earning a medium or low income, or even 
        less.'';
Whereas China is leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and 
        predatory economics to coerce neighboring countries to reorder the Indo-
        Pacific region to their advantage;
Whereas China spends roughly $200,000,000,000 on defense annually, the second 
        ranking country in military spending, and announced that its annual 
        military budget would increase by 6.2 percent;
Whereas the People's Liberation Army's Navy is the largest navy in the world 
        consisting of over 300 ships and 130 major surface combats, including 
        the newly introduced Type 094 class ballistic missile submarine, capable 
        of carrying 12 modern JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missiles with a 
        range of approximately 7,400 kilometers;
Whereas the China National Space Administration is not transparent on the cost 
        of the Tianwen-1 project;
Whereas the World Bank says that China is undergoing ``the fastest sustained 
        expansion by a major economy in history'';
Whereas China, with respect to purchasing power parity basis, has become the 
        world's largest economy;
Whereas China is the world's second-largest economy, with a gross domestic 
        product of $14,000,000,000,000;
Whereas China is the top energy consumer in the world;
Whereas China has more billionaires among its population than any other country, 
        except the United States;
Whereas China continues to hold its World Trade Organization (WTO) ``developing-
        nation'' status;
Whereas China should establish a plan to move from WTO ``developing-nation'' 
        status to ``developed-nation'' status;
Whereas Chinese subsidies and government controls provide its producers an 
        advantage in the world market;
Whereas Gambia, Guinea, and Cambodia, among other countries, are more 
        representative of countries with ``developing-nation'' status;
Whereas China needs to participate in fair subsidy disciplines within the WTO;
Whereas China is expanding its global security footprint through the acquisition 
        and leasing of ports, airfields, and critical information and technology 
        infrastructure around the world;
Whereas the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found that China was 
        using forced sterilization, forced abortion, and coercive family 
        planning against Muslims;
Whereas the Biden Administration should declare genocide to be occurring in the 
        Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China;
Whereas China should be condemned if threats continue by the CPC against the 
        Government of Taiwan;
Whereas the XUAR is now estimated to have up to 1,800,000 Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
        Kyrgyz, Hui, and others that have been arbitrarily detained in a system 
        of extrajudicial mass internment camps where they are subjected to 
        forced labor, torture, and political indoctrination;
Whereas the Turkic and Muslim minorities are also facing widespread and systemic 
        forced labor;
Whereas pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong are being targeted and arrested;
Whereas, as a country with WTO most-favored-nation status, China should stand 
        firm against the use of slave labor, forced work camps, or restrictions 
        on the free exercise of religion;
Whereas illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances are predominantly 
        sourced from China;
Whereas China generated 53 percent of the world's total coal-fired power in 
        2020;
Whereas China opened three times as many more coal plants in 2020 as the entire 
        rest of the world;
Whereas China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases;
Whereas Chinese water pollution affects other countries and major rivers in 
        China are classified as severely polluted;
Whereas China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) raises issues of debt and 
        inequities with respect to countries participating in such Initiative;
Whereas transparency is needed when funding is awarded to economically 
        questionable projects in developing countries;
Whereas heavily indebted countries are highly susceptible to Chinese political 
        pressure;
Whereas China should promote and adhere to high standards lending practices; and
Whereas the Department of Defense identified Huawei as a CPC military company, 
        along with 19 other Chinese firms with ties to the China's military: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives condemns China for 
continuing to hold its ``developing-nation'' status in the World Trade 
Organization, its continued human rights violations, its misinformation 
with respect to poverty, its dishonest lending practices, and its 
censorship of free speech.
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