; table of contents. Sec. 2. Statement of purpose. Sec. 3. Findings. Sec. 4. Sense of Congress. Sec. 5. Updating statement of United States policy toward the People’s Republic of China. Sec. 6. Imposition of sanctions. Sec. 7. Report on human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Sec. 8. Report on protecting citizens and residents of the United States from intimidation and coercion. Sec. 9. Report on security and economic implications of repression in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by the Government of the People’s Republic of China. Sec. 10. Classified report. 2. Statement of purpose The purpose of this Act is to direct United States resources to address human rights violations and abuses, including gross violations of human rights, by the Government of the People’s Republic of China through the mass surveillance and internment of over 1,000,000 Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 3. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Government of the People’s Republic of China has a long history of repressing Turkic Muslims and other Muslim minority groups, particularly Uyghurs, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In recent decades, central and regional Chinese government policies have systematically discriminated against these minority groups by denying them a range of civil and political rights, including the freedom of expression, religion, and movement, and the right to a fair trial. (2) In May 2014, the Government of the People’s Republic of China launched its latest Strike Hard Against Violent Extremism campaign, using wide-scale, internationally-linked threats of terrorism as a pretext to justify pervasive restrictions on and serious human rights violations of members of ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The August 2016 appointment of former Tibet Autonomous Region Party Secretary Chen Quanguo to be Party Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region accelerated the