; and (C) cause severe and irreparable damage to the one country, two systems principle and further erode global confidence in the PRC’s commitment to international law. (2) The United States has a long and proud history as a destination for refugees and asylees fleeing persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. (3) The United States also shares deep social, cultural, and economic ties with the people of Hong Kong, including a shared commitment to democracy, to the rule of law, and to the protection of human rights. (4) The United States has sheltered, protected, and welcomed as American citizens individuals who have fled oppression of authoritarian regimes, including citizens from the PRC following the violent June 4, 1989, crackdown in Tiananmen Square, deepening ties between the people of the United States and those individuals, regardless of nationality, seeking to contribute to a free, open society founded on respect for the rule of law. (5) The United States has reaped enormous economic, cultural, and strategic benefit from welcoming successive generations of scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists, intellectuals, and other freedom-loving people fleeing Fascism, Communism, violent Islamist extremism, and other repressive ideologies, including in the case of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Soviet-controlled Central Europe, Cuba, Vietnam, and Iran. (6) Offering prospective refuge to those who have contributed the most to Hong Kong’s success would signal to the Chinese Communist Party that repression in Hong Kong would result in losing its immense wealth and talent to the United States. (7) A mid-2020 Brookings report notes that Chinese officials see the United States’ continued ability to attract and retain Chinese talent as a serious impediment to their technological ambitions and a 2009 report of Issues in Science and Technology notes that competition for [science and technology] brainpower … will become one of the key defining