Bill Text: TX SCR30 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Condemning the Chinese Communist Party.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [SCR30 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR30-Introduced.html
| By: Creighton | S.C.R. No. 30 | |
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| WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China is an adversary of | ||
| the United States, possessing authoritarian ideologies and social | ||
| credit programs that threaten the peace, freedom, and democracy | ||
| America has long defended across the world; and | ||
| WHEREAS, the Chinese Communist Party covered up the existence | ||
| and downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19, silencing journalists | ||
| and scientists who attempted to share information about China's | ||
| involvement in the origins of COVID-19, as well as ordering the | ||
| destruction of laboratory samples and research regarding COVID-19 | ||
| in January 2020; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Chinese Wuhan Municipal Health Commission | ||
| waited nearly a month to inform world authorities of the COVID-19 | ||
| outbreak which originated from that region and was likely created | ||
| in a Chinese laboratory; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist Party continues to spy on the | ||
| United States, recently evident in the Chinese surveillance balloon | ||
| that flew across the continental United States in violation of | ||
| international law; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China has stood against our | ||
| interests by stealing invaluable intellectual property; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist Party continues to exert | ||
| concerning influence in Texas agriculture and other sectors by | ||
| purchasing large parcels of agricultural land throughout the State, | ||
| posing a risk to the security of the United States and the State of | ||
| Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China continues to | ||
| perpetrate unacceptable persecution of minority groups in its | ||
| borders, namely their abuses and crimes perpetrated against the | ||
| Uyghurs; and | ||
| WHEREAS, on April 30, 2019, a Chinese court falsified charges | ||
| against Texan Mark Swidan and sentenced him to death, an action that | ||
| has widely been considered hostage diplomacy; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Chinese manufacturers are responsible for producing | ||
| the majority of the illicit fentanyl imported by transnational | ||
| cartels into the United States, with fentanyl being the leading | ||
| cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45; and | ||
| WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by | ||
| U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman, | ||
| and child; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Rather than cooperate with U.S. officials to curb | ||
| the production and exportation of chemicals used in fentanyl | ||
| production, the Chinese Communist Party has turned a blind eye to | ||
| the trafficking of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances via | ||
| international mail and express consignment carriers; now, | ||
| therefore be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby condemn the Chinese Communist Party for their transgressions | ||
| against the United States and the State of Texas, including their | ||
| creation of an international pandemic, repeated violations of | ||
| international law, and direct involvement in the American fentanyl | ||
| crisis; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to | ||
| the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members | ||
| of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this | ||
| resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
