Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1223-W843

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Release Date: July 6, 2019

发布日：2019年7月6日

Topic: US Congress Presses China on Tiananmen Anniversary (Agence France-Presse report)

标题：美国国会在天安门周年纪念日向中国施压(法新社报道)

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US Congress presses China on Tiananmen anniversary

-- Agence France-Presse

June 4, 2019

Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives urged China on Tuesday to end its wall of silence over the crushed Tiananmen Square movement, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowing on the 30th anniversary to keep the memory alive.

The House approved a resolution that urged China to provide a "full, transparent and independent accounting" of the Tiananmen crackdown, in which hundreds if not more than 1,000 pro-democracy protesters were killed on June 4, 1989 as the communist rulers sent in tanks and troops.

The resolution -- sponsored by Democratic Representative Jim McGovern and passed unanimously with 10 members not voting -- called on Beijing to allow Tiananmen dissidents who fled to the United States or elsewhere "to return to China without risk of repercussions and retribution."

It also urged China to "cease the censoring of information and discussion about the Tiananmen Square massacre" including at Confucius Institutes, the centers for Chinese studies that Beijing has supported at universities around the world.

Pelosi, a longtime advocate for human rights in China, said she was making a promise to the Tiananmen Mothers, who have fought on behalf of victims.

"Today, and on all days, we assure these mothers that we remember, and that the heroism of their children will continue to be written in the official history of the United States Congress," Pelosi told the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which monitors human rights in the country.

"We must remember, because China still tries to deny history," Pelosi said, in a rare appearance by a House leader before a congressional hearing.

Pelosi voiced concern that China is "going in the opposite direction" on human rights.

"It's important for the world to know, 30 years later, that we haven't forgotten what happened then and that we know what is happening now and it will have an impact in our relationship with China," she said.

Pelosi's remarks came a day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded that China provide a full accounting of the Tiananmen crackdown and release political prisoners, saying that the United States had lost hope for improvements in China's human rights record over the past 30 years.

His statement prompted an unusually angry reprimand from China, which denounced his "lunatic ravings and babbling nonsense."

China went to great lengths to avoid commemorations of the anniversary, with authorities detaining activists and ramping up surveillance of the square itself, with livestreaming services suddenly down for "technical" reasons.

Pelosi, whose district includes San Francisco's Chinatown, infuriated Beijing on a visit as a rank-and-file lawmaker in 1991 when she unfurled a pro-democracy banner in Tiananmen Square to honor the victims.

Related photo:

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hugs Wei Jingsheng, a leading exiled Chinese dissident, at an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown (AFP Photo/NICHOLAS KAMM)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1223-W843

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1223-W843

Release Date: July 6, 2019

发布日：2019年7月6日

Topic: US Congress Presses China on Tiananmen Anniversary (Agence France-Presse report)

标题：美国国会在天安门周年纪念日向中国施压(法新社报道)

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美国国会在天安门周年纪念日向中国施压

-- 法新社

2019年6月4日

华盛顿（法新社） -- 美国众议院周二敦促中国结束其对天安门广场运动的沉默。与此同时，众议院议长南希•佩洛西在30周年纪念日发誓保持有关的记忆。

美国众议院批准了一项决议，敦促中国就其在天安门的镇压进行“全面、透明和独立的解释” -- 1989年6月4日，中共统治者派遣坦克与军队，杀死了数百名也许是上千名的民主抗议者。

该决议由民主党众议员吉姆•麦戈文提出并一致通过（除了10名未投票的成员） -- 呼吁北京允许逃往美国或其它地方的天安门异议人士“返回中国且无受到影响与报复的风险”。

它还敦促中国“停止审查有关天安门大屠杀的信息和讨论”，包括孔子学院及北京支持的在世界各大学的中国研究中心。

佩洛西是长期倡导中国人权之士，她说她向代表遇难者的天安门母亲做承诺。

“今天以及所有的日子里，我们向这些母亲保证，我们将记得，他们的孩子们的英雄主义将继续写在美国国会的官方历史中，”佩洛西告诉监督中国人权的美国国会及行政当局中国委员会。

“我们必须记住，因为中国仍然试图否认历史，” 作为众议院领导人，佩洛西在国会听证会上罕见地作证。

佩洛西表达了对中国在人权方面“走向相反方向”的担忧。

她说：“很重要的是让全世界都知道，30年后，我们并没有忘记当时发生的事情，而且我们知道现在发生着什么，这将对我们与中国的关系产生影响。”

佩洛西的上述言论发表于美国国务卿麥克·蓬佩奧要求中国全面解释天安门镇压并释放政治犯以及表示美国在过去30年中已失去了改善中国人权记录的希望之后的第二天。

蓬佩奧的声明引发了一场来自中国的异乎寻常的愤怒谴责，说他“疯狂和胡说八道”。

中国竭尽全力避免纪念这个周年纪念活动 -- 当局拘留活跃人士并加强对天安门广场本身的监视，包括由于“技术”原因突然停止了直播。

选区包括旧金山唐人街的佩洛西于1991年作为一名普通立法者访问北京时激怒了中共官方，当时她在天安门广场展开了支持民主的旗帜，以纪念受害者。