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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextETHNIC UNITY AND PROGRESS LAW, CONCERNED WITH ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, AS WELL AS SURVIVAL OF THE IDENTITY, OF TIBETANS, UYGHURS, MONGOLIANS, AND OTHER AFFECTED COMMUNITIES, AND CALLING ON THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO END ITS ABUSES AND
CAMPAIGNS OF TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION THAT UNDERMINE UNITED STATES
SOVEREIGNTY AND THREATEN THE SAFETY AND FREEDOMS OF PEOPLE IN THE
UNITED STATES
Ms. ROSEN (for herself, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Merkley, and Mr. Banks) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations:
S. Res. 791
Whereas the Constitution of the People's Republic of China
guarantees specified rights, including freedom of religious
belief and the right of people regarded as minorities to use
their own spoken and written languages and preserve their
cultural traditions;
Whereas the People's Republic of China is a State Party to
the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (ICESCR) and is a signatory to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
Whereas Chinese authorities have systematically imposed
policies that displace ethnic and religious minority
communities, separate Tibetan and Uyghur children from their
families through state-run boarding schools, limit the use of
minority languages, curtail religious practice through
intrusive state controls, and compel conformity with ideology
mandated by the Chinese Communist Party;
Whereas the policies of the People's Republic of China have
threatened the rights and freedoms of a broad range of
communities, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians,
Christians, and other ethnic and religious groups across
China, as well as the people of Hong Kong whose civil
liberties and autonomy have been systematically eroded in
recent years;
Whereas, on January 19, 2021, the United States Department
of State determined that the Government of the People's
Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against
humanity against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim
Turkic peoples in Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party
is engaging in forced sterilization, forced labor, arbitrary
detention, and restriction of religious practice;
Whereas Chinese Communist Party member Chen Quanguo first
experimented with systematic surveillance, intimidation,
detention, and draconian controls on expressions of religious
and cultural identity in Tibet before expanding and
accelerating those repressive techniques in Xinjiang;
Whereas the July 1, 2026, entry into force of the Ethnic
Unity and Progress Law of the People's Republic of China
institutionalizes and expands coercive assimilation and
cultural erasure policies directed toward Tibetans, Uyghurs,
Mongolians, Christians, and other groups;
Whereas the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law codifies the
Chinese Communist Party's campaign of “Sinicization,”
requiring schools, religious institutions, families, media,
and cultural organizations to align their activities with
Party-mandated ideology;
Whereas the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law criminalizes
expression deemed to “undermine ethnic unity” or “create
ethnic division”;
Whereas the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law contains
extraterritorial provisions authorizing Chinese authorities
to pursue “legal responsibility” for individuals and
organizations outside China, which includes United States
citizens who “undermine ethnic unity” or challenge the
Chinese Communist Party's official historical narratives;
Whereas officials in Taiwan have warned the Ethnic Unity
and Progress Law could be used by the Government of the
People's Republic of China to assert extraterritorial
jurisdiction over Taiwanese individuals by characterizing
expressions of Taiwanese identity, history, or self-
governance as violations of the law;
Whereas the United States has charged multiple individuals
acting on behalf of the People's Republic of China with
operating illegal overseas police stations, conducting
transnational repression, harassing dissidents, and
attempting to limit freedom of expression and other human
rights of individuals outside of China;
Whereas, on March 16, 2026, United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned the Ethnic
Unity and Progress Law risks entrenching assimilationist
policies, restricting education in languages other than
Mandarin, and limiting the free practice of religion and
culture;
Whereas, on April 30, 2026, the European Parliament adopted
a resolution condemning China's new “ethnic unity and
progress” law and warning that it poses grave risks to the
rights and cultural preservation of Tibetans, Uyghurs,
Mongolians, and others;
Whereas the United States has long affirmed its commitment
to defending religious freedom and the rights of ethnic
minorities through bipartisan measures such as the
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401
et seq.), the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020
(subtitle E of title III of division FF of Public Law 116-
260), and the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public
Law 116-145);
Whereas the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law expands state
authority over religious institutions in ways that threaten
the ability of Tibetan Buddhist leaders to determine matters
of religious tradition, including the succession of the Dalai
Lama; and
Whereas the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law represents a
grave escalation in the campaign of the People's Republic of
China to suppress ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic
diversity and, when combined with the Chinese Government's
expanding campaigns of transnational repression, illegal
overseas police operations, and extraterritorial claims of
authority, poses a growing threat to the United States and
its allies: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) condemns the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law for
institutionalizing coercive assimilation, cultural erasure,
and ideological control over ethnic and religious minorities
in the People's Republic of China;
(2) reaffirms support for the fundamental rights and
freedoms of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Hui Muslims,
Christians, and other ethnic and religious communities in the
People's Republic of China;
(3) reaffirms the 2021 determination of the United States
Department of State that the Government of the People's
Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against
humanity against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim
Turkic peoples;
(4) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of
China to repeal the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law;
(5) urges the United States Department of State to work
with allies and partners, including the European Union,
Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom, to monitor
and report on the impacts of the Ethnic Unity and Progress
Law and ongoing transnational repression carried out by the
People's Republic of China;
(6) calls on the President to evaluate and consider
targeted sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights
Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) against
individuals and entities responsible for, complicit in, or
directly benefiting from gross human rights violations that
result from implementing the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law
and related laws and policies;
(7) recognizes the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan
Administration for their longstanding commitment to
nonviolence and dialogue and reaffirms that, in light of the
Ethnic Unity and Progress Law's expansion of state authority
over religious institutions, decisions regarding the
reincarnation or succession of the Dalai Lama are solely the
prerogative of Tibetan Buddhist leaders and the Tibetan
people, free from interference by the Government of the
People's Republic of China, as outlined in the Tibetan Policy
and Support Act of 2020; and
(8) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of
China to resume dialogue with the Dalai Lama or his
representatives in order to hold substantive discussions
aimed at resolution of the Sino-Tibetan disputes at an early
date, without preconditions.