Condemning the People's Republic of China's Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress and the Chinese Communist Party's campaign of forced assimilation against ethnic and religious minorities.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1400 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1400

  Condemning the People's Republic of China's Law on the Promotion of
Ethnic Unity and Progress and the Chinese Communist Party's campaign of
      forced assimilation against ethnic and religious minorities.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2026

 Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. McGovern) submitted the
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign
   Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
                          committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION

  Condemning the People's Republic of China's Law on the Promotion of
Ethnic Unity and Progress and the Chinese Communist Party's campaign of
      forced assimilation against ethnic and religious minorities.

Whereas, on March 12, 2026, the National People's Congress adopted the Law on
        the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress (Ethnic Unity Law), scheduled
        to take effect on July 1, 2026;
Whereas the People's Republic of China officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority
        groups, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Hui Muslims, Manchus,
        and other communities with distinct languages, religions, histories, and
        cultural traditions;
Whereas the law elevates Chinese Communist Party ideology, prioritizes Mandarin
        Chinese in education and public life, and advances a Party-defined
        national identity over minority language, religion, culture, and
        history;
Whereas the law's vague prohibitions on acts deemed to harm ethnic unity risk
        criminalizing peaceful expression, religious practice, cultural
        preservation, minority-rights advocacy, scholarship, journalism, and
        dissent;
Whereas the law includes extraterritorial provisions that could be used to
        punish or intimidate persons in the United States for speech, advocacy,
        religious activity, scholarship, journalism, or cultural expression
        disfavored by the Chinese Communist Party;
Whereas the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the Regional
        Ethnic Autonomy Law purport to protect minority languages, customs,
        religious belief, and regional autonomy;
Whereas officials in Taiwan have warned that the law could be used to target
        expressions of Taiwanese identity, history, democratic self-government,
        or opposition to the Chinese Communist Party's official historical
        narratives;
Whereas the Department of State determined in January 2021 that authorities of
        the People's Republic of China, under the direction and control of the
        Chinese Communist Party, committed genocide and crimes against humanity
        against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious
        minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as
        the Uyghur Region;
Whereas abuses in the Uyghur Region include mass arbitrary detention, forced
        labor, torture, coercive population-control measures, severe
        restrictions on religious practice, pervasive surveillance, and forced
        separation of children from families;
Whereas United Nations experts have warned that approximately one million
        Tibetan children have been affected by residential-school policies aimed
        at assimilating Tibetans culturally, religiously, and linguistically;
Whereas forced assimilation policies in Tibet, the Uyghur Region, the Inner
        Mongolia Autonomous Region, and other areas undermine the ability of
        families and communities to transmit language, faith, history, and
        cultural identity to future generations;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has interfered in Tibetan Buddhist religious
        life, including by asserting authority over the recognition, education,
        and succession of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leaders;
Whereas the recognition and succession of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan
        Buddhist leaders are religious matters that must be decided exclusively
        according to Tibetan Buddhist tradition and the wishes of the Tibetan
        Buddhist community;
Whereas the People's Republic of China is a party to international treaties that
        impose obligations implicated by policies of forced assimilation, family
        separation, religious repression, torture, discrimination, and cultural
        erasure;
Whereas, on April 30, 2026, the European Parliament adopted a resolution
        condemning the Ethnic Unity Law, criticizing its extraterritorial
        provisions, urging sanctions, rejecting Chinese Communist Party
        interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama, calling for the
        release of political prisoners, and urging renewed United Nations
        scrutiny;
Whereas the Chinese Communist Party's use of overseas coercion, intimidation,
        surveillance, and pressure against diaspora communities threatens the
        safety and freedoms of persons in the United States and undermines the
        rule of law; and
Whereas cultural erasure is not unity, atrocities are not progress, and coercion
        is not legitimate governance: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the People's Republic of China's Ethnic Unity
        Law and the Chinese Communist Party's broader campaign of
        forced assimilation against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Hui
        Muslims, Manchus, and other ethnic and religious minorities;
            (2) condemns policies and institutions used to separate
        children from families, communities, languages, religions, and
        cultures, including coercive boarding-school and residential-
        school systems, orphanage placements, and other mechanisms of
        forced assimilation;
            (3) affirms that the recognition and succession of the
        Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leaders are
        religious matters to be decided by Tibetan Buddhists, free from
        interference by the Government of the People's Republic of
        China or the Chinese Communist Party;
            (4) urges the Government of the People's Republic of China
        to engage, without preconditions, in substantive dialogue with
        representatives of the Dalai Lama or his representatives to
        address longstanding grievances of the Tibetan people;
            (5) supports continued advocacy for the release of
        political prisoners detained for peaceful advocacy, religious
        practice, scholarship, cultural preservation, or the exercise
        of fundamental rights, including Ilham Tohti, Gedhun Choekyi
        Nyima, Hada, Rahile Dawut, Go Sherab Gyatso, and other Uyghur,
        Tibetan, Mongolian, Hui Muslim, Manchu, and Chinese prisoners
        of conscience;
            (6) urges the President, the Secretary of State, and the
        Secretary of the Treasury, as appropriate, to impose sanctions
        and visa restrictions, including under the Global Magnitsky
        Human Rights Accountability Act, Executive Order 13818, any
        successor authority, and section 7031(c) of the Department of
        State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations
        Act, on officials and entities responsible for conceiving,
        implementing, financing, profiting from, or enforcing the Law
        on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress and related
        forced-assimilation policies;
            (7) urges the Secretary of State to coordinate with
        democratic allies and partners, including the European Union,
        Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom, to monitor
        implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and
        Progress, document its effects on targeted communities, and
        respond to related transnational repression;
            (8) urges the Secretary of State to expand and prioritize
        programs that support endangered languages, religious
        traditions, oral histories, independent media, diaspora-led
        cultural education, documentation of cultural repression,
        preservation of cultural heritage, and local-language
        international broadcasting and public diplomacy messaging, for
        communities targeted by forced assimilation;
            (9) urges the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
        coordination with the Attorney General and other relevant
        Federal officials, to strengthen efforts to protect diaspora
        communities in the United States from harassment, threats,
        surveillance, coercion of relatives abroad, and attempts to
        silence lawful advocacy linked to the Law on the Promotion of
        Ethnic Unity and Progress;
            (10) urges the Secretary of State to use the voice, vote,
        and influence of the United States at the United Nations,
        including in the Security Council, to highlight the People's
        Republic of China's violations of international obligations,
        genocide in the Uyghur Region, and other severe violations of
        internationally-recognized human rights;
            (11) urges the Secretary of State to assess whether the
        treatment of Tibetans by the Government of the People's
        Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, including
        coercive boarding-school policies, forced labor, separation of
        children from families and communities, severe restrictions on
        religious practice, and interference in Tibetan Buddhism,
        warrants a public atrocity-crimes determination; and
            (12) urges the Secretary of State to include detailed
        reporting on the Ethnic Unity Law and related forced-
        assimilation policies in the Department of State's annual
        Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, International
        Religious Freedom Report, and Trafficking in Persons Report, as
        appropriate.
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