Unsatisfied with what they see as the Biden administration’s tepid response to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) human rights abuses and violations of trade commitments, a group of GOP lawmakers is pushing tough new legislative measures that would penalize top CCP officials and their relatives. The members of Congress sponsoring the “Stop CCP Act” are Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.), and RSC National Security and Foreign Affairs Task Force Chairman Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). The legislation would block visas and freeze the assets of CCP officials that make up the Party’s National Congress, its high-level decision-making body, and their families until the regime makes a number of concessions including stopping its repression of Uyghurs of western China, curbing its aggression toward Taiwan, respecting freedom of speech and other basic political and human rights in Hong Kong, and …
‘We Have to Stop Letting Our Adversaries Push Us Around’: Rep. McClain On ‘Stop CCP Act’
February 15, 2022
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