Bipartisan duo wants to remind Congress, Trump of China's 'atrocities' ahead of Xi visit

Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and independent Sen. Angus King of Maine are pushing a resolution cataloging decades of Chinese Communist Party abuses, timed to land just before President Donald Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Fox News Digital obtained the list, which the two senators say draws attention to the human cost of CCP rule as Trump and Xi sit down for days of talks. The push coincides with the CCP marking its 105th anniversary.

Lankford said that for over a century the party has repressed its people, targeted the faithful, and stripped away basic liberties, and that engagement with Beijing should not erase the toll on those who suffered or still live under its rule. He added that the United States needs to keep championing religious liberty, human rights and individual dignity.

The resolution from Lankford and King catalogs episodes across the last hundred years in which CCP leaders killed citizens, jailed dissidents and stamped out opposition, with much of that violence tied to the party's climb to power under founder Mao Zedong during and after World War II into the 1960s. The senators, who represent opposite parties, said they want the abuses kept in view regardless of how the diplomatic talks unfold, calling the list a reminder of the party's ambitions to seize and keep power in China.

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