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On the recordOctober 24, 2020
Mr. President, General Secretary Xi is a dictator and human rights violator. He is yet another Communist leader trying to be the dominant world power. The Chinese Communist Party is stripping the people of Hong Kong of their freedoms, cracking down on dissidents, militarizing the South China Sea, supporting Maduro's genocide in Venezuela, surveilling its citizens, and imprisoning more than 1 million Uighurs in internment camps simply because of their religion. Communist China is committing genocide against the Uighurs. It doesn't end there. Recent reports indicate that the Communist Party of China is attempting the same thing in Tibet, forcing hundreds of thousands of people in Tibet into mass labor camps. We know the Chinese Communist Party and their puppets continue to silence and intimidate those standing up for democracy and human rights. They detain and harass journalists to try and prevent the truth from getting out. Foreigners and journalists working and traveling in Communist China do so at their own risk. Just last week, Communist China began threatening to take Americans as hostages. The national security threat of Communist China cannot be taken lightly. The censorship of these human rights abuses cannot be ignored. General Secretary Xi doesn't want us to know about the oppression occurring under his regime.…
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Rick Scott
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