As we've observed over the last five years, Hong Kong's autonomy and freedoms that are guaranteed by the Joint Declaration and their Basic Law are just eroding rapidly due to the interference of the Chinese Communist Party's government in…
Marco Rubio
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
I actually find it offensive, and frankly, it points to one of the challenges we have in dealing with human rights.
It's apparent that human rights in Hong Kong are eroding and the influence of mainland China is continuing to grow.
The United States must lead the way in letting the Chinese Communist Party know that taking a hammer and sickle to the cross and enslaving more than 1 million Uighurs in an effort to erase their religion and culture are destructive…
It is not in the interest of the United States, or for that matter the free world, to have this steady erosion of rights.
We have urged the Trump administration to use Global Magnitsky Act sanctions to target Chinese officials responsible for egregious human rights abuses.
Mr. Martin Lee's apt description of the proposed amendment is that it will 'legalize kidnapping.'
I mean it is a tough thing to do business when people are afraid to go there because they might be extradited for aiding and abetting.
We have heard you loud and clear about the need to ramp up our voices on this extradition law, and we need to do it now.
It's one of the reasons why I will be reintroducing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act which updates our Hong Kong policy and establishes punitive measures against government officials responsible for suppressing fundamental…





