police as they suppress protesters. (8) The Government of Hong Kong has coopted or coerced local companies like MTR Corporation Limited and Cathay Pacific Airways Limited into facilitating the suppression of protests by denying protestors’ access to reliable train services and terminating staff who support the pro-democracy movement. (9) The Government of Hong Kong continues to defy peaceful protestors’ rightful demands for the resignation of Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam, an impartial inquiry into police brutality, and greater democratic freedoms, as guaranteed to the people of Hong Kong by the Government of the People’s Republic of China. (10) The unwillingness of the Government of Hong Kong to meet protestors’ demands is a direct product of its role, not as a representative or protector of the people of Hong Kong, but rather as a proxy for the regime of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, which has demonstrated its intent to impose its will on Hong Kong, including through paramilitary or military force. (11) The approach of that regime to Hong Kong is not fundamentally dissimilar from the approach the regime has taken elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, including by using economic threats to compel Air Canada, Air France, Apple, Audi, Blizzard Entertainment, British Airways, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Google, Malaysia Airlines, Marriott Hotels, the National Basketball Association, Qantas Airlines, Swarovski, Tiffany & Co., and Versace into remaining silent in response to its treatment of protestors in Hong Kong. 4. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Government of the People’s Republic of China has willfully violated the terms of the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law