Hearing on China’s Global Transnational Repression

Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing announcement:

Countering China’s Global Transnational Repression Campaign

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

10:00 a.m.

1100 Longworth House Office Building

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has engaged in a campaign of transnational repression to harass diaspora communities and regime critics living around the world, specifically targeting Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Tibetans, and others from groups that have been suppressed domestically.

PRC agents – including those linked to the Ministry of State Security and provincial police forces – have engaged in forced rendition of asylum seekers, street assaults, digital surveillance, online harassment, and the coercion and intimidation of the family and friends of dissidents and political prisoners in the United States and globally.

This hearing will highlight the PRC’s use of transnational repression. Witnesses will discuss the diverse tactics used by the PRC, discuss specific cases of transnational repression and its effects on diaspora and dissident communities in the United States, Canada and worldwide, and offer recommendations for further congressional and administrative action and transatlantic cooperation.

The hearing will be livestreamed on the CECC’s YouTube Channel.

Witnesses: 

Panel 1

Michael Chong, Member of Canadian Parliament, Wellington-Halton Hills

Panel 2

Yana Gorokhovskaia, Research Director for Strategy and Design, Freedom House

Laura Harth, Campaign Director, Safeguard Defenders

Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs