{"id":183752,"date":"2021-03-01T07:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=183752"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:42:33","slug":"rep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Perry: Designate CCP a Transnational Criminal Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Frep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization%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=183752&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--><p>Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said Sunday that the Biden administration must designate the Chinese Communist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp\">CCP<\/a>) a \u201ctransnational criminal organization,\u201d to allow Americans to understand the regime\u2019s vision for not only China, but also the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re making a differentiation between the people of China and the Communist Party of China,\u201d the lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmaker.com\/video\/135d2b29-7547-47ae-a2a5-6a5c4a888d07\">told The Epoch Times<\/a> at the\u00a0Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cpac\">CPAC<\/a>) in Orlando, Florida.\u00a0\u201cWe need to designate them as that which recognizes who and what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry in October 2020 introduced a bill to designate the CCP as such, and to eliminate sovereign immunity for Chinese officials\u2014which would allow them to be tried in U.S. court for criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, they claim they have sovereignty, because they are a government of a country, but I think that\u2019s very specious. I mean, they\u2019re a criminal organization involved in criminal acts, it\u2019s not a matter of conjecture,\u201d Perry said. \u201cIt\u2019s easily proven fact, whether it\u2019s the distribution or the allowance of the distribution of fentanyl across our borders, and right into the United States, or whether it\u2019s the human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re somehow giving them a pass, because they say we have sovereign immunity as a government,\u201d he continued. \u201cSovereign immunity as a government doesn\u2019t allow you to commit horrific acts of violence against your own citizenry, or anybody else, whether it\u2019s in your borders or not\u2014the world has not allowed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perry introduced the legislation with Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) last year that would add the CCP to the Department of Justice\u2019s Top International Criminal Organizations Target (TICOT) list, that seeks to identify and eliminate international criminal organizations that pose the gravest threat to U.S. national interests.<\/p>\n<p>He said Sunday that the designation would allow the Department of Justice to deal with the Chinese regime and \u201cprosecute those responsible,\u201d on issues ranging from intellectual property theft, to the regime\u2019s crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will get the American people fully understanding who the Communist Party of China is and what their vision is for not only for China, for the United States of America,\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3713068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229216879-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A soldier wearing a mask gestures outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on Oct. 22, 2020. (Nicolas Asfouri\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Transnational organized crime is defined by the FBI as self-perpetuating associations of individuals who operate transnationally for the purpose of obtaining power, influence, and monetary and\/or commercial gains, wholly or in part by illegal means, while protecting their activities through a pattern of corruption and\/or violence, or while protecting their illegal activities through a transnational organizational structure and the exploitation of transnational commerce or communication mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are all crimes and they\u2019re not being dealt with,\u201d Perry said, referring in part to the human rights abuses being committed against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang region, forced organ harvesting, the Chinese regime\u2019s social credit program, the intellectual property theft on American soil, the distribution of narcotics, and proliferation through China into the United States through Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that it sets everybody\u2019s frame of mind and especially businesses, because I don\u2019t think most businesses want to be dealing with a criminal organization, and most businesses certainly don\u2019t want to deal with some of this with an organization that is involved in the concentration camps and the oppression of the Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A day before leaving office, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the Chinese regime\u2019s persecution of Uyghurs as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-admin-declares-beijings-repression-in-xinjiang-a-genocide_3662785.html\">genocide<\/a> and \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d The Biden administration has agreed with the designation.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, however, has said the new administration has some reservations about former President Donald Trump\u2019s approach to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just say that I also believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China,\u201d Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-was-right-in-taking-a-tougher-approach-to-china-bidens-top-diplomat-nominee_3662967.html\">told<\/a> the Senate foreign relations panel during his confirmation hearing. \u201cI disagree very much with the way that he went about it in a number of areas, but the basic principle was the right one, and I think that\u2019s actually helpful to our foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has indicated he would focus on \u201cextreme competition\u201d with the Chinese regime, although the administration has shed little light on concrete plans pending a review of Trump-era China policies. The administration also faces pressure from Congress to continue a hardline stance toward the regime, an area that enjoys bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cathy He contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said Sunday that the Biden administration must designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a \u201ctransnational criminal organization,\u201d to allow Americans to understand the regime\u2019s vision for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229216879-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Rep. 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