The House passed legislation on April 27 that would require the State Department to submit ongoing reports to Congress documenting China’s support of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
H.R. 7314, referred to as the “Assessing Xi’s Interference and Subversion Act” or, more simply, the “AXIS Act,” will now go to the Senate for consideration.
The text of the legislation states that China’s communist regime has engaged in a pro-Russia propaganda campaign that “make it culpable in whitewashing Russia’s war crimes, which include the indiscriminate killing of countless Ukrainian men, women, and children.”
Russia is currently being investigated for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), meanwhile, has been accused by American leadership of tacitly supporting the alleged crimes, and called out by international leadership for its refusal to condemn Russia.
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