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This bill — the TIANANMEN Act of 2019 — would impose sanctions on foreign companies that facilitate the Chinese government’s surveillance of people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. It would require the president to make a determination as to whether certain entities (listed below) should be sanctioned, and submit each determination to the appropriate congressional committees for a decision. Sanctioned companies would face export controls and have property transfers blocked.

The entities that the President would be required to consider for sanctions are:

Beijing Wanlihong Technology Co., Ltd.
China Communications Services Co., Ltd.
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.
CloudWalk Technology Co., Ltd.
Dahua Technology Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
Hebei Far East Communication System Engineering Co., Ltd.
iFlyTek Co., Ltd.
Megvii Technology Ltd.
SenseTime.
Shanghai Yitu Technology Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd.

This bill would also require the President to submit a list of U.S. companies that conduct a transaction with or transfer goods to any foreign companies under sanctions to the appropriate Congressional committees on a regular basis (at least every 180 days). If a U.S. company were to do business with any companies subject to sanctions under this bill, they would have to report the business to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Finally, this bill would specify that the Secretary of Commerce may not remove Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries and affiliates from the entity list until the President certifies to the appropriate Congressional committees that Huawei has met two conditions: first, that it’s not involved in any activities contrary to U.S. national security or foreign policy interests, and two, that it doesn’t conduct or facilitate surveillance in Xinjiang.

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