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Human Rights in China and U.S. Policy: Issues for the 117 th Congress. Concern over human rights in China has been a central issue in relations since the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989. In recent years, human rights conditions in China have deteriorated, while bilateral tensions related to trade and security have increased.
Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and State President Xi Jinping intensified and expanded the reassertion of party control over society. Government methods of social and political control are evolving to include the widespread use of sophisticated surveillance and big data technologies.
