That the Senate—
condemns the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law for institutionalizing coercive assimilation, cultural erasure, and ideological control over ethnic and religious minorities in the People’s Republic of China;
reaffirms support for the fundamental rights and freedoms of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Hui Muslims, Christians, and other ethnic and religious communities in the People’s Republic of China;
reaffirms the 2021 determination of the United States Department of State that the Government of the People’s Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim Turkic peoples;
calls on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to repeal the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law;
urges the United States Department of State to work with allies and partners, including the European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom, to monitor and report on the impacts of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law and ongoing transnational repression carried out by the People's Republic of China;
calls on the President to evaluate and consider targeted sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) against individuals and entities responsible for, complicit in, or directly benefiting from gross human rights violations that result from implementing the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law and related laws and policies;
recognizes the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration for their longstanding commitment to nonviolence and dialogue and reaffirms that, in light of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law’s expansion of state authority over religious institutions, decisions regarding the reincarnation or succession of the Dalai Lama are solely the prerogative of Tibetan Buddhist leaders and the Tibetan people, free from interference by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, as outlined in the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020; and
calls on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama or his representatives in order to hold substantive discussions aimed at resolution of the Sino-Tibetan disputes at an early date, without preconditions.