Category: Jim McGovern

LIVE 3:30 PM ET: Richard Gere and Bipartisan Lawmakers Host Press Conference on Tibet

March 28, 2023
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U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), House Committee on Rules Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), U.S. Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), joined by actor Richard Gere and the International Campaign for Tibet, host a press conference at 3:30 p.m. ET on March 28, to discuss the situation of Tibetans…

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Global Lawmakers Express Solidarity with Chinese Protesters as CCP Diplomat Signals Regime Will Persist With Zero-COVID

November 29, 2022
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The Chinese communist regime has signaled that it will not abandon its draconian COVID policies despite mass protests in at least 10 cities across China over the weekend. Zou Xiaoli, the Chinese regime’s ambassador to Argentina, told reporters on Nov. 28 that China will persist in its dynamic zero-COVID policy when asked about recent protests,…

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US Commission Urges for UN Report on Uyghurs Before Beijing Olympics

January 19, 2022
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, is calling on the United Nations human rights office to release its assessment on the plight of the persecuted Uyghur ethnic group in China’s Xinjiang region before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Doing so would provide a global public service as…

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US Commission Urges UN Report on Uyghurs Before Beijing Olympics

January 19, 2022
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, is calling on the United Nations human rights office to release its assessment on the plight of the persecuted Uyghur ethnic group in China’s Xinjiang region before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics. “Doing so would provide a global public service as…

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US Commission Asks IOC to Do More for Chinese Tennis Player and Press China on Human Rights Violations

November 25, 2021
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, has criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not doing enough for Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), chair and co-chair of the CECC, voiced their criticism in two separate letters dated Nov. 24. One…

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US Commission Asks IOC to Do More for Chinese Tennis Player Peng Shuai

November 25, 2021
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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, has criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for not doing enough for Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), chair and co-chair of the CECC, voiced their criticism in two separate letters dated Nov. 24. One…

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