CCP’s Oppression of Hong Kong Matters to the US: House Committee Chairman

‘We were promised one country, two systems. Instead what we see is one country, one system, one party, one ruler: Xi Jinping.’

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, speaks at a roundtable event in Washington on May 23, 2024. Courtesy of the House Select Committee on the CCP

The chairman of a House committee said Hong Kong’s freedom and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) oppression of the city matter to the United States as Beijing has tightened its grip on the former British territory.

In the roundtable titled “The Future of Hong Kong: U.S. Policy Going Forward,” hosted by the House Select Committee on the CCP on May 23, the chairman of the committee, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), warned that Americans’ core values are in danger as the CCP broke its promise to Hong Kong in the 1997 handover from the UK.