That the House of Representatives— (1) calls on the Government of Hong Kong to begin to undertake steps towards negotiations to address the demonstrators’ 5 central demands: the complete withdrawal of the bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance laws (commonly known as the extradition bill); the implementation of universal adult suffrage; the establishment of an independent investigation; the declassification of the protest as a riot; and the dropping of all charges against persons arrested during the protests; (2) condemns the Hong Kong police’s use of force against the demonstrations in a manner that violates citizens’ rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly; (3) calls on the Administration to ensure that munitions and crowd-control equipment the United States sells to the Hong Kong police aren’t used to repress peaceful protests in Hong Kong; (4) condemns the efforts by the Hong Kong and Chinese Governments to characterize the protests as riots and to blame the United States for involvement in the political instability they alone created; (5) shares the concerns of the people of Hong Kong that the lack of procedural protections in the proposed amendments to the extradition bill, which would negatively impact the territory’s longstanding protections of human rights, fundamental freedoms, and democratic values as enshrined in the Basic Law and the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984; (6) recognizes the one country, two systems framework and the Basic Law afford Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy with respect to economic and trade matters, and rule of law; (7) condemns the pro-Beijing media for targeting Julie Eadeh, the Political Counselor at the United States Consulate General in Hong Kong, and her family; and (8) calls on the Government of Hong Kong and all governments— (A) to protect the rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly; (B) to condemn all acts of violence against those seeking to further their democratic rights