MCGOVERN, SMITH, KHANNA LEAD BIPARTISAN GROUP OF 14 HOUSE LAWMAKERS ASKING STATE DEPARTMENT TO CONDEMN CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S HARMFUL 'ETHNIC UNITY LAW'

Washington, June 30 -- Representative James P. McGovern issued the following press release:

United States Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-MA), Chris Smith (R-NJ), and Ro Khanna (D-CA) today announced that a bipartisan group of 14 House lawmakers sent a letter asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio to condemn the People's Republic of China's Ethnic Unity Law as a tool of forced assimilation, ideological control, and transnational repression.

"Far from promoting genuine equality among ethnic groups, this law codifies and expands the Chinese Communist Party's majoritarian campaign of forced assimilation against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians, and other non-Han Chinese communities," wrote the lawmakers in their letter. "We respectfully urg...