Findings

Congress finds the following: (1) June 4, 2025, is the 36th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations for democratic reforms held on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. (2) For the past 36 years, the Chinese Communist Party and the Government of the People’s Republic of China has— (A) censored any mention of the brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing and in an estimated 400 other cities in the People’s Republic of China; (B) banned schools from teaching about the pro-democracy protests of 1989 and their brutal suppression on June 4th of that year by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA); (C) blocked internet search terms and removed content related to the June 4, 1989, crackdown; (D) disappeared the person known as Tank Man because of his courageous attempt to stop the advance of PLA tanks; (E) prevented the Tiananmen Mother’s group from publicly mourning or remembering their family members killed during the crackdown; (F) arbitrarily detained individuals who call for a full, public, and independent accounting of the wounded, dead, and imprisoned for participating in the spring 1989 demonstrations; (G) supported the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region’s suppression of the annual Tiananmen vigil which was, until 2020, the only commemoration allowed on the People’s Republic of China territory; (H) backed the arrest the organizers and participants of the annual vigil in Hong Kong, including Chow Hang-tung, Jimmy Lai, Joshua Wong, Gwyneth Ho, and Lee Cheuk-yan; (I) supported criminal schemes to silence critics of the People’s Republic of China in the United States according to Department of Justice indictments, including seeking to destroy a California sculpture park that contained statues commemorating the Tiananmen Massacre and plotting to disrupt the New York political campaign of a former Tiananmen student leader; (J) hid the fact that an estimated 1,000,000 people, from all walks of life, including students, government employees, journalists, workers, police officers, and members of the Armed Forces called for democratic reforms in 1989—seeking the elimination of corruption, accelerated economic and political reforms, protection of human rights, particularly the freedoms of expression and assembly—concerns that remain pertinent in China today; and (K) never acknowledged the use of excessive force nor apologized for the deaths and injuries caused by ordering the armed PLA troops and tanks into Beijing. (3) The United States Congress took steps, over the past 36 years, to mark the Tiananmen demonstrations and their violent suppression because of the profound impact the event has had on United States-People’s Republic of Chin relations and because commemorating Tiananmen was censored and banned in China and now in Hong Kong. (4) Section 7031(c) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), as carried forward by Public Law 119–4, authorizes the Secretary of State to deny entry into the United States officials of foreign governments and their immediate family members about whom the Secretary of State has credible information have been involved, directly or indirectly, in … a gross violation of human rights. (5) Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act makes inadmissible any foreign person whose entry or proposed activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.