WASHINGTON—Two prominent Republican lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to side with a lawsuit accusing Cisco of aiding a brutal persecution in China.
In a letter dated Oct. 29, Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), who respectively lead the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the House Select Committee on Chinese Communist Party, urged the administration to press the Supreme Court so the case could go to trial.
Practitioners of Falun Gong filed the case in 2011, alleging that the California tech giant has contributed in no small part to designing and building China’s vast surveillance network, exacerbating the sweeping eradication campaign that the regime launched against the faith group in 1999….