; prevents Chinese workers from forming independent unions and engages in an ongoing crackdown on labor advocates, organizations, and their supporters; restricts severely the religious activity of Protestants, Catholics, Tibetan Buddhists, and Turkic Muslims and has sought to eradicate Falun Gong practice in China; vilifies publicly and refuses to negotiate with His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives over Tibetan issues and asserts control over the reincarnation process through which the next Dalai Lama will be recognized; repatriates forcibly refugees to North Korea and pressures neighboring governments to repatriate refugees from China who reach their territory in contravention of the international legal principle of non-refoulement; restricts the activities of and detains citizen journalists; and continues to limit the size of Chinese families; Whereas the protection of universally recognized human rights, in law and practice, would allow the Government of the People’s Republic of China to establish more stable economic, political, and security relations with its neighbors and the United States; and Whereas the United States Congress annually observes the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations and their violent suppression— (1) because of the enduring impact this historical episode has had on United States-China relations; (2) because there has been no justice for those who lost their lives seeking freedom and political reform during the Spring of 1989; (3) because the Government of the People’s Republic of China censors research, discussion and commemoration of Tiananmen in China; (4) because the demonstrations showed that the ideas of democracy and freedom, human rights and the rule of law are not foreign to the people of China; (5) because the demonstrations and their violent suppression showed the lengths to which the leaders of the Government of the People’s Republic of China will go to suppress universally recognized rights and to maintain their hold on power