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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the People’s Republic of China made multiple, serious mistakes in the early stages of the COVID–19 outbreak that heightened the severity and spread of the ongoing COVID–19 pandemic, which include the Chinese Government’s intentional spread of misinformation to downplay the risks of the virus, a refusal to cooperate with international health authorities, internal censorship of doctors and journalists, and malicious disregard for the health of ethnic minorities.

H. Res. 907 · 116th Congress · Mar 24, 2020 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the House of Representatives—
(1)
calls on the Chinese Government to—
(A)
publicly state that there’s no evidence that COVID–19 originated anywhere else but China;
(B)
denounce the baseless conspiracy that the United States Army placed COVID–19 in Wuhan;
(C)
revoke its expulsion of American journalists;
(D)
end its detainment of Uyghur Muslims and other persecuted ethnic minorities; and
(E)
end all forced labor programs;
(2)
condemns—
(A)
the Chinese Government’s censorship of doctors and journalists during the early days of the outbreak and particularly its treatment of the deceased Dr. Li Wenliang;
(B)
the Chinese Government’s refusal to allow scientists from the Centers for Disease Control to assist its response to COVID–19 for over a month after cooperation was offered, needlessly endangering the lives of its own citizens and hampering the United States early attempts to learn more about COVID–19; and
(C)
China’s National Health Commissions’ duplicitous denial of the person-to-person transmissibility of COVID–19; and
(3)
calls for the World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to retract highly misleading statements of support for the Chinese Government’s response to COVID–19, especially his praise for the “commitment from [China’s] top leadership, and the transparency they have demonstrated”.