House Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Hold CCP Accountable for Genocide in China’s Xinjiang

Two House lawmakers have introduced legislation aiming to give the U.S. government additional means of combating the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) ongoing crimes against Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), co-chairs of the Congressional Uyghur Caucus, introduced the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act (H.R.8124) on April 23. The State Department in 2021 determined that China’s communist regime is committing “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. “This critical legislation will help address the horrific abuses we have seen directed at Uyghurs and other predominantly-Muslim Central Asian people by Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party—from forced labor to the forced harvesting of Uyghur organs,” said Mr. Smith, according to an April 24 press release....