Congressman Tony Gonzales, IPAC Release Statement on the Beijing Olympics

On Thursday I joined my fellow members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) in releasing a statement ahead of the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. IPAC is a group of international legislators that coordinate policy on China’s aggression.

Read the full statement here.

“We should not allow the [Olympic] Games to distract from the persecution of Tibetans, Christians, Falun Gong Practitioners and other ethnic and religious minorities, nor will we stay silent as the Chinese government dismantles Hong Kong’s way of life, threatens Taiwan and coerces Lithuania, Australia and other countries through trade,” said the statement by IPAC. “We cannot stand idly by while a major world government perpetrates what a growing number of legal investigations believe to be Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and torture in the Uyghur Region.”