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Hearing Announcement: Dark Nets, Illicit Labor—Confronting China’s IUU Fishing and Seafood Supply Chain
Hearing Announcement: Dark Nets, Illicit Labor—Confronting China’s IUU Fishing and Seafood Supply Chain
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Chairs Condemn Sentencing, Seek Medical Parole for Jimmy Lai
Chairs Condemn Sentencing, Seek Medical Parole for Jimmy Lai
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2026 Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
2026 Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
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Release of 2025 Annual Report Highlighting PRC's Broken Human Rights Promises
Release of 2025 Annual Report Highlighting PRC's Broken Human Rights Promises
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China’s War on Religion: The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why it Matters to the United States
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China Monitor - Updates on Key Human Rights Developments in China
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Stand with Taiwan: Countering the PRC’s Political Warfare and Transnational Repression
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Chairs Ask Administration to Restrict Chinese Seafood Imports
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Press Releases
Press Releases
Chairs Condemn Sentencing, Seek Medical Parole for Jimmy Lai
February 9, 2026
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Co-Chair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), released the following statement in response to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai by the Hong Kong authorities:
“We condemn today’s sentencing of democracy advocate and prisoner of conscience Jimmy Lai—another step in Beijing’s campaign to crush independent journalism and peaceful dissent in Hong Kong.
This is not justice. It is the weaponization of the courts to punish speech and intimidate an entire society.
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Developments in Hong Kong and Macau
Chairs’ Statement Condemning Jimmy Lai’s Conviction
December 18, 2025
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Cochair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), released the following statement on the conviction of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong:
“We condemn the ongoing prosecution of Jimmy Lai and so many others in Hong Kong, who are detained simply for exercising their God-given freedoms. We urge the Hong Kong authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Jimmy Lai and end political prosecutions that criminalize fundamental rights and expose the crumbling foundations of the rule of law in Hong Kong.”
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Developments in Hong Kong and Macau
Chairs Release 2025 Annual Report
December 10, 2025
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.
—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair and Cochair of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), today released the Commission’s 2025 Annual Report reviewing human rights conditions and legal developments in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), as mandated by Title III of Public Law 106–286.
Chairs Introduce Resolutions to Correct CCP’s Efforts to Rewrite WWII History
December 4, 2025
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— The Chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.)—announced a joint, bicameral effort to challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to rewrite World War II history and to honor the shared sacrifices of the United States and Nationalist China (formally known as the Republic of China, whose government is now based in Taiwan) during World War II.
Issues
Freedom of Expression
Chairs Ask President to Bring Home Americans Unjustly Detained in China
October 25, 2025
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C
. — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), the Chair and Cochair respectively of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) calling on the President to personally raise the cases of Americans unjustly detained in the People’s Republic of China during his next meeting with General Secretary Xi Jinping. The letter also urges direct, personal advocacy to secure relief and release for Americans facing life-threatening conditions and to end the PRC’s systemic use of exit bans, which the Chairs call “hostage-taking.”
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Access to Justice
Business and Human Rights
Freedom of Religion
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Events
Dark Nets, Illicit Labor—Confronting China’s IUU Fishing and Seafood Supply Chain
April 16, 2026
Human Trafficking
Xinjiang
China’s War on Religion: The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why it Matters to the United States
November 20, 2025
Freedom of Religion
Stand with Taiwan: Countering the PRC’s Political Warfare and Transnational Repression
July 23, 2025
Human Rights Violations in the U.S. and Globally
The Preservation of Memory: Combating the CCP’s Historical Revisionism and Erasure of Culture
December 5, 2024
Civil Society
Ethnic Minority Rights
Freedom of Expression
Tibet
Xinjiang
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Commission Analysis
Commission Analysis
Draft Ethnic Unity Law Intensifies Language and Cultural Repression of Uyghurs and other Ethnic Groups
December 17, 2025
Ethnic Minority Rights
Tibet
Xinjiang
709 Crackdown: China’s Overt Rejection of Universal Values
July 9, 2025
Access to Justice
Criminal Justice
North Koreans in China: Marginalized, Exploited and Repatriated
January 1, 2025
North Korean Refugees in China
First Separatism Conviction of a Taiwanese Citizen and Its Implications
January 1, 2025
Human Rights Violations in the U.S. and Globally
Criminal Justice
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