WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting this week with Xi Jinping, the genocidal dictator of Communist China, Senator Rick Scott released the below statement detailing his expectations for this meeting. Earlier this year, Senator Scott set the same expectations ahead of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s visit to Communist China, where he utterly failed to hold Xi’s oppressive, communist government accountable. Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased military aggression, continued cyberattacks on both private companies and U.S. government agencies, unfair trade practices and stealing of data and intellectual property from American citizens and businesses.

Notably, Senator Scott has been the most outspoken member of the U.S. Congress on Communist China’s disgusting human rights abuses. Senator Scott led the movement calling for the International Olympic Committee to pull the 2022 Winter Olympics from Communist China due to its mass imprisonment and genocide of Uyghur Muslims. Today, an estimated 1 MILLION Uyghurs are imprisoned by Communist China’s brutal regime and subjected to slave labor, involuntary organ harvesting, sterilization and torture that often results in death.

Senator Rick Scott said, “After months of Biden official after Biden official journeying to Communist China on American taxpayers’ dime to kiss Xi’s ring and play nice with America’s enemy, it’s now President Biden’s turn to embarrass the U.S. here at home. Joe Biden’s weakness on Communist China is inexcusable. He has refused to hold the murderous and genocidal communist Chinese government accountable for its cover-up of COVID-19. He’s done nothing to punish Xi for his genocide of millions of Uyghur Muslims and the forced labor and child slavery he subject them to. It has been one act of disgusting appeasement after the other. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Xi gave Biden an award for all he’s done to help Communist China. He signed the Democrat-led, pro-Communist China ‘CHIPS Bill’ which allowed semiconductor manufacturers like Intel to maintain MASSIVE operations in Communist China. Worse still, Biden VETOED my bill to reverse his rule that allowed Chinese solar companies, many of which are using child and slave labor, to circumvent U.S. trade laws. Communist China has chosen to be America’s enemy and NOTHING Joe Biden says is going to change that. But, since he is rolling out the red carpet for Xi in California after Schumer’s failed visit, here are the things he must demand answers on if he wants to actually stand up for America’s interests:

• Communist China’s role in the deadly fentanyl crisis that has taken more than 70,000 American lives over the last year;
• Xi’s disgusting cover-up of the COVID pandemic and the lab leak that caused devastation to the U.S. economy and the loss of millions of American lives;
• The massive and continuous IP theft, corporate espionage, and flow of counterfeit and illicit goods supported by Xi’s regime that have caused immeasurable damage to U.S. businesses;
• Communist China’s efforts to undermine the security of the United States by luring our neighbors using the Belt and Road Initiative to deny the U.S. access to resources, technology and strategic regions in the Western Hemisphere;
• The harm caused by Communist China’s international treaty violations, trade manipulation and illegal dumping, use of slave labor in solar panel production and attacks on the sovereignty of Taiwan and the Philippines with military operations in the Taiwan Strait and West Philippine Sea;
• Communist China’s blatant espionage and spy operations conducted through its spy balloon, spy base in Cuba and illegal police substations in American cities, including New York City;
• The horrific human rights abuses being committed by Xi’s evil and murderous regime, including the imprisonment of 1 MILLION Uyghurs who are subjected to slave labor, involuntary organ harvesting, sterilization and torture that often results in death; and
• Hold the Communist Party of China accountable for their despicable destruction of Hong Kong's freedom, autonomy and rule of law—specifically the sham conviction of pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.”

Since being elected to the U.S. Senate, Senator Scott has introduced dozens of bills to punish Communist China for its increased military aggression, continued cyberattacks on both private companies and U.S. government agencies, unfair trade practices and stealing of data and intellectual property from American citizens and businesses. Click HERE for a comprehensive list of his statements and actions on Communist China. 

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