That the House of Representatives—
will commemorate the Tiananmen protests and their violent repression at least until such time as Chinese citizens are able to do so freely and publicly everywhere across their country;
expresses sympathy to the families of those killed, tortured, imprisoned, or exiled for their participation in the pro-democracy demonstrations during the spring of 1989;
calls on the Government of China to allow those Tiananmen demonstration participants currently living in exile in the United States and other countries to return to China without risk of repercussions or retribution;
condemns the use of violence, torture, and arbitrary detention as a means to repress the legitimate aspirations of the people of China to speak and associate freely, including to petition the government and challenge the policies and ideology of the Chinese Communist Party;
calls on the Government of China to release all prisoners of conscience, including prisoners detained because of their participation in Tiananmen Square commemorations or actions calling for the type of political reforms and rights protections pursued by those who gathered in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and including over one million Uyghurs and other predominately Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region;
condemns any forced imposition of national security legislation with respect to Hong Kong;
calls upon the Administration to use all available authorities to protect United States interests in Hong Kong and the freedoms of the Hong Kong people, including—
encouraging the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China “to work with the Hong Kong [Special Administrative Region] Government and the people of Hong Kong to find a mutually acceptable accommodation that will honor China’s international obligations under the UN-filed Sino-British Joint Declaration”, as called for by the Joint Statement of the Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom; and
using all available diplomatic means and targeted sanctions to encourage the repeal of the national security legislation adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China on May 28, 2020;
calls upon the Administration to encourage an international coalition to demand that China adhere to its international agreements and human rights obligations; and
calls upon Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to allow the Hong Kong people to exercise their “freedoms of speech, of the press and of publication; freedom of association, of assembly, of procession and of demonstration”, as guaranteed in Article 27 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.