Using Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions to hold accountable Chinese business entities and officials complicit in the mass internment

Consider using the suite of sanctions that are available, where appropriate, against Chinese government agencies and individuals involved in the repatriation of North Korean refugees.

The system integrates facial recognition cameras and real-time monitoring of cell phones into an Orwellian policing platform.

The Administration should seek a rules-of-the-road agreement that will correct longstanding diplomatic, investment, media, and cultural and academic exchange imbalances.

Call on the Chinese government to cease harassment and arbitrary detention of civil society advocates and NGOs.

The Administration should employ the tools available in the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 to expand efforts to channel uncensored news.

I was honored to work with him on this important resolution.

I hope we all leave here with an appreciation for the role that well-maintained forest infrastructure can have significant impacts on people's lives.

I hope that we all leave here with a better sense of what we can do in the Subcommittee to help the Forest Service carry out its mission.

dozens of infrastructure projects are ready for implementation, but require the necessary funding.

But let me just thank Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Woodall for holding this subcommittee hearing.

I appreciate that as well.

I appreciate what I have heard up to this point.

I applaud Secretary Perdue and the team he has put together.

the U.S. Government has been very good at kind of talking the talk.

I applaud Chairman McGovern for introducing the PROTECT Hong Kong Act last week in the House of Representatives.

The U.S. must send a strong signal that this special status will be canceled if Hong Kong loses its autonomy.

And if it wasn't for the great people of Hong Kong standing up so powerfully at great loss to their liberty...

What is the status of the prosecutions?

It's time for Americans to stand with Hong Kong.

Opening Statement of Hon. James P. McGovern, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts; Chairman, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

The millions of Hong Kong protesters have also done the world a great service.

And I have tried for five years to get my bill passed, our bill. It's a collective bill, House and Senate, bipartisan.

Just talk in and of itself doesn't end up changing anything.

The committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on Hong Kong's Summer of Discontent and U.S. Policy Responses.