The offices – in Washington, New York and San Francisco – ‘serve as another mouthpiece that the Chinese Communist Party uses to obscure its long record of human rights abuses against Hongkongers’, sponsors of the legislation say.
A US lawmaker and witnesses call for Washington to sanction judges and prosecutors who have been ‘complicit’ in the deterioration of the rule of law in Hong Kong.
Republicans filed a flurry of bills focused on China. While they may be seeking to push these proposals as policy riders in the omnibus government spending package, they reflect continuing interest by congressional Republicans to legislate on US-China policy and relations.