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(Washington DC)--The Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), issued the following statement on the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre.
“Thirty-seven years after tanks rolled into Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party still refuses to answer the most basic question: Why were peaceful calls for freedom and reform met with bullets and bloodshed? Today, we remember what the CCP still tries to erase.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), the Chair and Co-chair respectively, of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released a letter today calling on the President to personally raise the cases of Americans, U.S. lawful permanent residents, and their family members, who have been unjustly detained in the People’s Republic of China, during his next meeting with General Secretary Xi Jinping.
The Chairs were joined on the letter by CECC Ranking Members Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative James McGovern (D-MA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Co-Chair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), released the following statement in response to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai by the Hong Kong authorities:
“We condemn today’s sentencing of democracy advocate and prisoner of conscience Jimmy Lai—another step in Beijing’s campaign to crush independent journalism and peaceful dissent in Hong Kong. This is not justice. It is the weaponization of the courts to punish speech and intimidate an entire society.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Cochair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), released the following statement on the conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong:
“We condemn the ongoing prosecution of Jimmy Lai and so many others in Hong Kong, who are detained simply for exercising their God-given freedoms. We urge the Hong Kong authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Jimmy Lai and end political prosecutions that criminalize fundamental rights and expose the crumbling foundations of the rule of law in Hong Kong.”
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Cochair of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), today released the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report reviewing human rights conditions and legal developments in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), as mandated by Title III of Public Law 106–286.
