{"id":1285176,"date":"2022-02-09T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285176"},"modified":"2022-02-09T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:38:57","slug":"exclusive-house-conservatives-introduce-sanctions-proposal-for-thousands-of-chinese-communist-party-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-conservatives-introduce-sanctions-proposal-for-thousands-of-chinese-communist-party-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 House Conservatives Introduce Sanctions Proposal for Thousands of Chinese Communist Party Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-house-conservatives-introduce-sanctions-proposal-for-thousands-of-chinese-communist-party-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1285176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1153354315-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Top U.S. House conservatives have introduced a legislative proposal to formally sanction thousands of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, including Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his entire family, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, from Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), has the backing of Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and of House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL). The measure represents the strongest sanctions effort against the CCP and Xi himself that Congress has yet considered, and is a serious escalation that comes on the heels of the publication of <em>Red-Handed<\/em>, a book from Breitbart News contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) president Peter Schweizer that exposes senior CCP intelligence ties to and financial deals with family members of Democrat President Joe Biden and other senior congressional leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Titled the \u201cStop CCP Act,\u201d McClain\u2019s bill would level debilitating sanctions on CCP officials, including blocking them from getting visas for U.S. travel and financial sanctions blocking them from using or accessing certain assets. It would sanction every member of the CCP\u2019s \u201cNational Congress,\u201d the CCP\u2019s highest governmental body. The National Congress of the CCP holds sessions every five years with the most senior members of the CCP, and its next meeting is scheduled to be toward the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Xi Jinping himself being sanctioned under this proposal, his immediate family members\u2014such as his daughter, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3796172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went to Harvard<\/a> earlier in life\u2014would also be sanctioned. If this bill had been law at that time, Xi\u2019s daughter would not have been allowed to attend Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would also ban those more than 2,000 CCP members from entering the United States\u2014and block their families from coming in as well. They would also all\u2014the CCP officials and their family members\u2014be formally blocked from accessing America\u2019s financial systems, so they could not use their family members to sneak around sanctions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This bill would also prohibit American companies operating in China from conducting any transactions or operations with any of the sanctioned individuals\u2014both the CCP officials and their family members.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also provides an off-ramp for China from these crippling sanctions: If the CCP truly stops its human rights abuses with Uyghurs and in Hong Kong, theft of American intellectual property, and incursions into Taiwan, the legislation provides a waiver that the President of the United States can use to certify lifting the sanctions for two years providing the conditions are met. That waiver would sunset statutorily every two years, however, and need to be renewed by Congress to ensure that a president too tied up with China financially\u2014like Biden\u2014could not abuse the waiver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is one of the biggest threats to the safety and security of the United States and the world,\u201d McClain said in a statement provided exclusively to Breitbart News. \u201cSanctioning leaders of the CCP is a commonsense way to show China and the world that we are sick and tired of their aggressive, bully-like tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RSC chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) added that the CCP officials being sanctioned in this proposal are particularly brutal abusers of human rights. With 159 members across the House GOP conference, the conservative RSC that Banks oversees is the largest group of House Republicans\u2014actually the largest caucus of members of either or both parties\u2014in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collection of individuals are some of the world\u2019s worst human rights offenders and leaders in an authoritarian, evil regime,\u201d Banks said. \u201cWe not only have a national security obligation, but a moral obligation, to block them from carrying out their corrupt agenda here on our shores. The Republican Study Committee is proud to lead the way in standing up to the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rogers, the ranking member of Armed Services who would presumably become the chairman of that very powerful committee, which considers annually must-pass legislation like the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), said this is a measure aimed at holding the CCP accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party must be held accountable for their egregious and disturbing human rights abuses,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cEvery day that Joe Biden hesitates in holding the CCP accountable for genocide and slave labor the CCP only grows more emboldened in their campaign of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), the RSC\u2019s National Security and Foreign Affairs chairman, is also backing the bill. \u201cI am grateful to join this effort to require sanctions on senior CCP members for their malign behavior and human rights abuses,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe must be bold if we are going to push back against decades of the CCP taking advantage of us and oppressing the extraordinary people of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Banks, Rogers, and Wilson, original cosponsors of McClain\u2019s bill include Reps. Brian Babin (R-TX), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Yvette Herrell (R-NM), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Bill Johnson (R-OH), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), David McKinley (R-WV), Mary Miller (R-IL), Marianette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Steven Palazzo (R-MS), Rep. Tracey Mann (R-KS), Greg Steube (R-FL), and Tracey Mann (R-KS).<\/p>\n<p>With such broad support from across powerful GOP leaders, while Democrats are unlikely to openly consider this proposal this Congress, if Republicans take the majority back in the House as expected in the upcoming midterm elections, this proposal is very likely to pass the chamber next year in a GOP-controlled House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXi Jinping is going to hate this legislation,\u201d a senior GOP aide from an office supporting it told Breitbart News. \u201cThis would take Xi\u2019s paw out of our honey pot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top U.S. House conservatives have introduced a legislative proposal to formally sanction thousands of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, including Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his entire family, Breitbart News &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}