House Chairman Condemns Businesses for Paying $40,000 to Dine With Xi Jinping

‘It is unconscionable’ to fete “the very same CCP officials who have facilitated a genocide against millions of innocent men, women, and children in Xinjiang.'

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) speaks during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation hearing in Washington on July 18, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A House chairman has asked U.S. organizers to provide a list of executives who will pay $40,000 to dine with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit to the United States.

In letters dated Nov. 13 to the leaders of two American business associations, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), criticized American business executives for paying thousands of dollars to have dinner with CCP officials involved in human rights abuses.