U.S. senators have voiced support for ordinary Chinese people and denounced communist regime leader Xi Jinping for lying to Americans and committing human rights abuses.
The resolution also encourages the U.S. government and its agencies to use all available tools—including the authorities under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allow sanctions against individuals responsible for serious human rights violations or corruption—to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials accountable.
The vote came just a day after Xi’s 73rd birthday.
“There is no greater threat to America’s way of life, peace, and prosperity in the world than Xi Jinping and the CCP,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who introduced the resolution earlier this month, told the Senate before the vote.
“Xi Jinping hates us. Communist China wants to destroy us,” Scott said. “He is not a partner. He is not a competitor. He is a brutal dictator leading a criminal organization that lies, cheats, steals, exploits slave labor, and commits genocide and crimes against humanity on an industrial scale.”
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The resolution notes that the CCP lied to the world about where the SARS–CoV–2 virus, which causes COVID-19, originated and how easily it was transmitted, while using international organizations such as the World Health Organization to “peddle falsehoods.”
As a result of these deceptions, more than 1 million people died from COVID-19 in the United States alone, according to the resolution.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Grapevine, Texas, on March 28, 2026. Leandro Lozada/AFP via Getty Images
In addition to the global pandemic, the resolution also highlights the CCP’s role in the fentanyl crisis in the United States.
On the trade front, Xi “doubled down” on the CCP’s decades-long “tradition of cheating,” the resolution stated.
When the Clinton administration sponsored China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, the CCP promised to transition to a more market-oriented economy, including reducing state control of trade and protecting intellectual property.
People at a press conference and rally in front of the America ChangLe Association, a now-closed secret Chinese police station, protesting Beijing’s transnational repression, in New York City on Feb. 25, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
More than 60 espionage cases linked to the CCP were documented in 20 U.S. states from February 2021 to December 2024, according to the resolution.
Even 36 years later, the bloody repression continues to serve as a “stark reminder of the sheer evil and cowardice” of the CCP and its inability to squash the aspirations of the Chinese people, according to the resolution.
The CCP, fearing that Falun Gong’s popularity threatened the regime’s power, began a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice, on July 20, 1999. Since then, many have suffered arbitrary detention, forced labor, torture, and death.
Falun Gong practitioners take part in a parade to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and call for an end to the persecution in China, in New York City on May 10, 2024. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
In Hong Kong, the CCP’s imposition of the national security law in 2020 has compromised basic freedoms and led to the imprisonment of pro-democracy activists, including former publisher Jimmy Lai, the resolution said.
Scott, in a June 16 statement, called for courage and action.
“The CCP, especially under Xi Jinping’s tyranny, has a particular brand of evil,” Scott said in a statement. “They seek to control the world, and in their mind, that means destroying anyone who stands in their way—whether it’s their own people or not.
“We cannot be afraid to stand up to our enemies and hold the line for the next generation of Americans.”