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Recent News About Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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A bipartisan group of Commissioners from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has issued a letter urging the State Department to employ existing rewards programs in order to gather information that will "deter and disrupt the market for illegally procured organs…and hold accountable those responsible for the gruesome practice" of forced organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). CECC Chair Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ) was joined by CECC Ranking Member Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Representatives Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Michelle...
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The Chairs of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) have spoken out on World Press Freedom Day, highlighting the concerning state of press freedom in the People's Republic of China.Representative Christopher Smith and Senator Jeff Merkley emphasized the dire situation in China, stating, "The People’s Republic of China (PRC) jails more journalists and exports more propaganda than any other country in the world." They also noted that China ranks second to last on the World Press Freedom Index, with a shrinking media environment and...
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Representative Chris Smith and Senator Jeff Merkley led a hearing this week on the effectiveness of social compliance audits in uncovering forced labor in supply chains in China. The hearing, titled “Factories and Fraud in the PRC: How Human Rights Violations Make Audits Impossible,” shed light on the shortcomings of social audits in identifying labor abuses in major industries.In his opening statement, Representative Chris Smith criticized social audits as "another fig leaf…to signal their virtue to consumers [and] a near fiction when it comes to accurately portraying...
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The chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China is calling for the “shutdown” of Hong Kong consular outposts in the U.S. because of China’s role in eroding Hong Kong’s rule of law and judicial independence.
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Rep. Smith urges President Biden to meet with the wives of two human rights defenders who have been detained by the Chinese Communist Party.
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The initial hearing regarding the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act takes place in Congress.
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Congressional-Executive Commission on China has issued the following press release: