Republican Congressman Scott Perry.
On Sunday, Feb. 28, Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry said the Biden administration must designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “transnational criminal enterprise” in order to give the American people a full understanding of the nature of the CCP and to discourage businesses from dealing with the criminal organization.
Perry stated this position to the Epoch Times on Sunday during the Republican Conservative Coalition Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. He said, “The Biden Administration needs to recognize the Chinese Communist Party for what they are to designate them [the CCP] and to distinguish the Chinese people from the Chinese Communist Party.”
Perry introduced a bill back in October 2020 that would have placed the CCP on the Justice Department’s list of “Top International Criminal Organization Targets” (TICOT), designated the CCP as a “transnational criminal group” and removed the “sovereign immunity” (TICOT) enjoyed by CCP officials. “Sovereign immunity,” which means they can be criminally prosecuted in U.S. courts. The bill aims to identify and eradicate the most serious threats posed by the CCP to U.S. national interests.
Perry said that while the CCP is affiliated with the national government and it claims sovereign (immunity), it is a criminal enterprise involved in criminal operations. He cited proven facts: their (CCP) distribution of drugs such as fentanyl to the United States via Mexico, theft of U.S. intellectual property, human rights abuses against the Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, and forcible organ harvesting. These are all crimes, and they are not being dealt with,” he said. In some way it’s all a pass we’ve given them [the Chinese Communist Party].”
So Perry argued that designating the CCP as a “transnational criminal enterprise” would allow the American people to fully understand what the Chinese Communist Party is and what they are trying to do to the United States, deter businesses from dealing with the CCP, and make it easier for the Justice Department to “prosecute those responsible “.
The day before he left office, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Uighurs as “genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity. The Biden administration agreed with this designation, and members of Congress were unanimous in calling on the Biden administration to continue to take a tough stance against the Chinese Communist regime.
But the current Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, has said the new administration has reservations about former President Trump‘s hard-line approach to China.
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