"This is not a day for celebration. Rather, it is an opportunity to remember the victims, past and present, of the (CCP)," wrote two GOP lawmakers.
President Donald Trump tweeted congratulations to his Chinese counterpart Tuesday morning, acknowledging the 70th anniversary of Community Party rule in China. But several members of Trump's own Republican Party were not in the same congratulatory mood.
Some Republican lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, later issued statements diverging with Trump's commemoration, though they did not mention Trump. Hong Kong is a semiautonomous region of China, having been promised"a high degree of autonomy" after its handover from British rule in 1997. Protestors have taken to the streets over the past several months over fears that citizens' civil liberties and political freedoms were being eroded by China's Communist Party.
House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., issued a joint statement with Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., denouncing the Communist Party.
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