By: Creighton S.C.R. No. 30
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China is an adversary of
the United States, possessing authoritarian ideologies and social
credit programs that threaten the peace, freedom, and democracy
America has long defended across the world; and
WHEREAS, the Chinese Communist Party covered up the existence
and downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19, silencing journalists
and scientists who attempted to share information about China's
involvement in the origins of COVID-19, as well as ordering the
destruction of laboratory samples and research regarding COVID-19
in January 2020; and
WHEREAS, The Chinese Wuhan Municipal Health Commission
waited nearly a month to inform world authorities of the COVID-19
outbreak which originated from that region and was likely created
in a Chinese laboratory; and
WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist Party continues to spy on the
United States, recently evident in the Chinese surveillance balloon
that flew across the continental United States in violation of
international law; and
WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China has stood against our
interests by stealing invaluable intellectual property; and
WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist Party continues to exert
concerning influence in Texas agriculture and other sectors by
purchasing large parcels of agricultural land throughout the State,
posing a risk to the security of the United States and the State of
Texas; and
WHEREAS, The People's Republic of China continues to
perpetrate unacceptable persecution of minority groups in its
borders, namely their abuses and crimes perpetrated against the
Uyghurs; and
WHEREAS, on April 30, 2019, a Chinese court falsified charges
against Texan Mark Swidan and sentenced him to death, an action that
has widely been considered hostage diplomacy; and
WHEREAS, Chinese manufacturers are responsible for producing
the majority of the illicit fentanyl imported by transnational
cartels into the United States, with fentanyl being the leading
cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45; and
WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by
U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman,
and child; and
WHEREAS, Rather than cooperate with U.S. officials to curb
the production and exportation of chemicals used in fentanyl
production, the Chinese Communist Party has turned a blind eye to
the trafficking of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances via
international mail and express consignment carriers; now,
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas
hereby condemn the Chinese Communist Party for their transgressions
against the United States and the State of Texas, including their
creation of an international pandemic, repeated violations of
international law, and direct involvement in the American fentanyl
crisis; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to
the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.