A group of bipartisan lawmakers are introducing legislation this week targeting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) human rights violations at home as well as its transnational repression campaigns, as Washington and Beijing resumed trade talks in Stockholm.
The bills are sponsored in the Senate by Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) of the Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC).
One of the bills seeks to tackle “transnational repression”—acts by foreign governments and their proxies to target overseas dissidents, journalists, and other persecuted groups.
The bill is sponsored in the House by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and James McGovern (D-Mass.)….