MEDIA PACKAGE: Select Committee on CCP Holds Hearing - "How the CCP Uses the Law to Silence its Critics and Enforce its Rule"
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party held a hearing this morning titled "How the CCP Uses the Law to Silence its Critics and Enforce its Rule." Witnesses included Mr. Jamil Jaffer, Founder and Executive Director, National Security Institute, Ms. Anna Puglisi, Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution, Dr. Jill Goldenziel, Professor, National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace.
Watch highlights from the hearing below.
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Chairman John Moolenaar:
“In China, there is no justice. There are no rights. There is no free speech. There is no rule of law.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has said the judicial and law enforcement departments should hold the absolute leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Click HERE for Chairman Moolenaar's opening remarks as prepared for delivery
Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi:
“The CCP views the law as a sword to use against its opponents, and a shield to protect its interests.”
Mr. Jamil Jaffer, Founder, The National Security Institute, responds to Chairman Moolenaar's question about Chinese crane manufacturer ZPMC’s refusal to cooperate in a Select Committee investigation because of China’s national security law.
“It tips us off. If these cranes have questions about state secrets… what does that say about what ZPMC is doing with those cranes?”
Read Mr. Jaffer's testimony HERE.
Ms. Anna Puglisi, Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution, testifies after Chinese biotech company, BGI Genomics, threatened her for exposing CCP links:
“Speaking up today may put me in further jeopardy.
But if we begin to self-censor based on the actions of an authoritarian regime, we become more like them and less like an open democracy.”
Read Ms. Puglisi's testimony HERE.
Dr. Jill Goldenziel, Professor, National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace:
“[Chinese] scholars view legal warfare as a form of combat in its own right.”
“The goal of legal warfare is to factionalize the PRC’s adversaries and weaken their will to fight.”
Read Dr. Goldenziel's testimony HERE.