The second resolution—approved 428 to 1—promises to cause China even greater aggravation by punishing companies that use forced labor from China's Uyghur Muslim minority, victims of a ferocious security crackdown that America has labeled genocide. Both issues have prompted the United States and several allies to pull diplomats from the Beijing Games.
"Today, Congress sends a clear message: the Chinese government's genocide of the Uyghur people must end now," Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a Wednesday afternoon tweet. "If the U.S. does not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interests, we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights any place in the world."
