WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) and the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a hearing entitled, “The Chinese Communist Party's Ongoing Uyghur Genocide." The Congressman’s full line of questioning can be found below. 

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Congressman Luetkemeyer: Back in 2020, there were a thousand Chinese companies on our stock exchange and the United States invested a trillion dollars in those companies. A trillion dollars. We put in place a provision that said they had to be audited every two years. Because many of them are shell companies – they’re just running the money through those companies into the government. And that alone knocked almost three quarters of those companies off the list… But we’re still investing in this country. Our trade deficit’s $383 billion dollars… How do you get the message across to the American people that we’ve got to stop looking to Chinese products?

Hon. Nury Turkel: The American people need to stop purchasing knowingly. Everything we touch – solar panels, pharmaceuticals, PPE’s, beauty products… People need to know that we are complicit in the ongoing genocide.