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SWU student ccp
October 23, 2023

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A year ago, horrified by the Chinese Communist Party’s crimes in Tibet and Xinjiang, a brave group of Chinese students spoke out against their government.

They were angry that the world allowed China to host the Olympics and couldn’t understand the indifference in their community.

Issues: Research Security CCP International Influence Transnational Repression

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Tibet
October 23, 2023

Welcome to The Select, a weekly newsletter on the work of the Congressional Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

See below for last week's updates.


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Sequoia China
October 18, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party today expanded a bipartisan investigation into U.S. venture capital firms investing in People's Republic of China (PRC) high-tech by launching an inquiry into Sequoia Capital and Sequoia Capital China, following the announcement that the entities will split in early 2024.

Issues: American Business CCP Economic Aggression

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Sequoia
October 18, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party today expanded a bipartisan investigation into U.S. venture capital firms investing in People's Republic of China (PRC) high-tech by launching an inquiry into Sequoia Capital and Sequoia Capital China, following the announcement that the entities will split in early 2024. GGV Capital, another venture capital firm the Select Committee is investigating, recently announced a similar separation of its U.S. and PRC operations.


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Tibet
October 18, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued a joint statement following a meeting with actor and activist Mr. Richard Gere and Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration regarding ongoing efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the CCP’s repression of the Tibetan people. 


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sequoia
October 18, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party today expanded a bipartisan investigation into U.S. venture capital firms investing in People's Republic of China (PRC) high-tech by launching an inquiry into Sequoia Capital and Sequoia Capital China, following the announcement that the entities will split in early 2024. GGV Capital, another venture capital firm the Select Committee is investigating, recently announced a similar separation of its U.S.

Issues: American Business CCP Economic Aggression CCP International Influence Critical Infrastructure/Cyber Defense

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tibet again
October 18, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued a joint statement following a meeting with actor and activist Mr. Richard Gere and Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration regarding ongoing efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the CCP’s repression of the Tibetan people. 

Issues: CCP Internal Repression CCP International Influence Transnational Repression

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hong kong protests
October 17, 2023

Read Chairman Gallagher's speech to the Freedom in Hong Kong October Symposium HERE

Issues: CCP Internal Repression

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ccp podcast
October 16, 2023

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) hosts software pioneer Nathan Freitas and cybersecurity expert Valentin Weber for a ranging discussion techno-totalitarian surveillance state, China's 'Great Firewall', and U.S. companies' footprint and complicity with the authoritarian regime.

Watch the full podcast on YouTube HERE.

Issues: American Business CCP Economic Aggression CCP International Influence

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Bridgeman
October 16, 2023

Welcome to The Select, a weekly newsletter on the work of the Congressional Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.

See below for last week's updates.


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bridgeman
October 13, 2023

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I want to tell you a story about courage and cowardice.

October 13th, 2022. A man in Beijing wakes up before the chilly dawn. His fellow citizens in China have spent two years welded into their homes, locked in quarantine camps, and living under a darkening techno-totalitarian shadow. 

Issues: CCP Internal Repression CCP International Influence Transnational Repression

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Mike Gallagher
October 13, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Chairman Gallagher today announced that he will nominate Peng Lifa for the Nobel Peace Prize on the anniversary of his one-year historic protest against Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian rule. In the video above, the Chairman highlights Apple’s role in choking off the protests that Peng Lifa inspired. 


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Lu Siwei
October 12, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, released the following joint statement on the forced repatriation of People’s Republic of China (PRC) national and human rights lawyer Lu Siwei to the PRC from Laos.


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uyghurs
October 12, 2023

Chairman Gallagher's full speech on the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Province HERE

Issues: Uyghur Genocide

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us china military
October 11, 2023

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In 1991, a Chinese academic by the name Wang Huning wrote a book called America Against America—a critique of the internal conflict he found at the heart of American society. 

Issues: CCP Economic Aggression CCP International Influence Critical Infrastructure/Cyber Defense

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fishing boats
October 11, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, alongside a group of bipartisan lawmakers, wrote to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Richard Spinrad, urging him to take immediate action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) Chinese fishing fleets that operate globally.

Issues: CCP International Influence Environment

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fishing boats
October 11, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, alongside a group of bipartisan lawmakers, wrote to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Richard Spinrad, urging him to take immediate action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) Chinese fishing fleets that operate globally.


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Pope
October 5, 2023

The Washington Post | Rep. Mike Gallagher

"We want God!” chanted the hundreds of thousands gathered to see Karol Wojtyła, now Pope Saint John Paul II, celebrate mass near Krakow, Poland, in June 1979. Poland was entering its 32nd year of communist rule and the ground was shifting.

John Paul’s exhortation to the faithful to live in truth and stand against aggression helped end the regime. He often said these three words: Be not afraid.

Issues: CCP Internal Repression