{"id":3687,"date":"2020-02-04T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/us-lawmakers-nominate-hong-kong-protesters-for-nobel-peace-prize\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:07","slug":"us-lawmakers-nominate-hong-kong-protesters-for-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/us-lawmakers-nominate-hong-kong-protesters-for-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lawmakers Nominate Hong Kong Protesters For Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">It isn&rsquo;t easy to get politicians from the two main U.S. political parties to agree on much. One common area, however,&nbsp; is often U.S. policy toward China, and today a bipartisan group of American lawmakers released a letter nominating Hong Kong&rsquo;s pro-democracy moment for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>The move is sure to draw criticism from Beijing, which has blamed foreign forces for instigating protests in the former British colony.&nbsp; It comes at time when U.S.-China relations have been strained by trade and geopolitical tension, and as Beijing&rsquo;s leaders are straining to control a coronavirus outbreak that has led to more than 400 deaths and 20,000 illnesses and threatens first-quarter economic growth (see related story&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/russellflannery\/2020\/02\/03\/kevin-rudd-in-his-own-words-chinas-coronavirus-response-relatively-rapid-and-draconian\/\" target=\"_self\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/russellflannery\/2020\/02\/03\/kevin-rudd-in-his-own-words-chinas-coronavirus-response-relatively-rapid-and-draconian\/\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Representative James P. McGovern, a Democrat from Massachusetts, &nbsp;Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, Representatives Christopher Smith, &nbsp;a New Jersey Republican, Thomas Suozzi, a New York Democrat, and Tom Malinowski, a New Jersey Democrat, as well as Senators Jeffrey Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, and Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, supported the nomination. They are all members of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&rsquo;t easy to get politicians from the two main U.S. political parties to agree on much. One common area, however,&nbsp; is often U.S. policy toward China, and today a bipartisan group of American lawmakers released a letter nominating Hong Kong&rsquo;s pro-democracy moment for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 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