The bill, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would attach China’s eligibility to obtain preferential trading treatment—known as “normal trade relations” status (NTR)—with the government’s human rights record.
Under President Bill Clinton, the United States gave China PNTR status in 2000, which covered the way for the regime’s installation in the World Trade Organization. Conventional thinking at the time was that more trade and investment in China would drive democratization within the communist-ruled country.
Nevertheless, it’s now widely accepted that this notion has not been sufficient. Rather, with the help of the spike in foreign investments and a barge of unfair trade practices, China’s communist regime has been empowered economically, allowing it to fix its absolute grip both inside and outside the country as it proceeds to intensify a range of aggressions throughout the world. American manufacturing was gutted in the process.
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“For twenty years, China has held permanent most-favored-nation status, which has supercharged the loss of American manufacturing jobs. It’s time to protect American jobs and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for their forced labor camps and egregious human rights violations,” Cotton said in a statement.
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If enacted, the bill would mean a throwback to the system before China was given PNTR, where the country’s eligibility for NTR was reviewed yearly. The bill would also bar China from NTR status if its government engages in certain human rights violations, including forced labor, detaining people in concentration camps; performing forced abortions or sterilizations, forcibly taking the vital organs from prisoners and dissidents, and blocking the free exercise of religion.
The Chinese regime has arrested more than one million Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in the region of Xinjiang, a campaign that has been designated by the United States as a genocide.
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Faith and rights groups have also been targets of communist leaders in Beijing, including the Buddha-school self improvement practise Falun Gong, which has been severely persecuted for more than two decades.
Hundreds of thousands of adherents are expected to be arrested at any certain time, where they are enslaved to torture and forced organ harvesting.
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The bill would also forbid China from receiving NTR status if it engages in systematic economic espionage against the United States, including theft of American intellectual property.
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