US Companies Aiding China’s Human Rights Violations Under Spotlight at Congressional Hearing

U.S. corporations are complicit in human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and subject America to national security risks by adhering to the CCP’s demands, witnesses said at a hearing held by the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Tuesday.
During his opening remarks, commission chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) highlighted state-sanctioned genocide, torture, rape, forced abortion, and forced organ harvesting, among others, as part of the CCP’s “absolutely shameful record of wanton cruelty.”
“American companies and consumers should not be subsidizing tyranny,” he added. He also expressed concerns that, with technology transfers, U.S. corporations helped the CCP military grow to “an existential security threat” to the United States and many countries in the Asia-Pacific region….