Lawmakers Looking to Formally Criminalize CCP’s Transnational Repression

WASHINGTON—A bipartisan panel of lawmakers are looking for ways to formally criminalize the Chinese regime’s transnational repression to protect critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on U.S. soil. The issue came under the spotlight at a Dec. 13 evening hearing held by the House Select Committee on the CCP, where witnesses took the platform to attest to the harassment and assault the Chinese regime has carried out in the United States. The various forms of the Chinese regime’s abuses and the extensive network of its enablers have created a climate of fear that follows them wherever they go, the witnesses said....