30 Organizations Call for Congressional Urgency in Examining Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices
May 10, 2023
“We write to request that your respective committees schedule business meetings to markup the bipartisan The Hong Kong Economic and trade Office Certification Act (S. 490; H.R. 1103). This bipartisan legislation would force a review of the preferential treatment that Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices (HKETOs) currently receive under U.S. law. These organizations may have deserved special treatment when they represented a relatively autonomous Hong Kong; they now operate as little more than propaganda machines for the Chinese Communist Party. We believe this charade must come to an end.
