Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, has urged President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to confront the Chinese regime over its human rights abuses. He called for the release of China's prisoners of conscience and for sanctions against Hong Kong officials tied to the prosecution of former media mogul Jimmy Lai. Moolenoar accused the Chinese government of having been systematically persecuting religious and political prisoners since the Cultural Revolution. He highlighted cases of women prisoners, including those of Jiang Yongqin, a Falun Gong practitioner who was serving a five-year sentence, who reportedly died while on parole due to torture.