Marsha Blackburn: “I thank the Senator from Missouri for the work he is doing as he brings forward this resolution for Hong Kong. I want to…”

“I thank the Senator from Missouri for the work he is doing as he brings forward this resolution for Hong Kong. I want to take just a couple of minutes to remind those of us who have been watching this issue and have concerns about this resolution that the aggression we are seeing now is not something that is new. This is newly realized. As those of us who have followed this and followed the dealings of the Chinese Communist Party know, the newest so-called national security law is nothing more than the party's response to the threat that uprisings and protests in Hong Kong pose to its hold on power. It just can't stand it. It watches the freedom fighters in Hong Kong, and it thinks: What if it gets away from us? Hong Kong is our financial center, and it is watching what is happening in the rest of the free world. Australia, Canada, and the UK all have signed the official joint statement with us, the United States of America, expressing deep concern with this so-called national security legislation, which really is the Communist Party's way of stepping into Hong Kong and usurping the power--of going back on a deal it made long ago. Beijing claims that it needs this law to control against ``subversion of state power,'' but, again, anyone who has been paying attention knows that it will use this standard as an excuse to redefine ``subversion'' and engage in the violent repression of speech, association, and movement--with no cause and without mercy.…”