{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/12/tillis-bipartisan-group-of-senators-warn-ccp-against-violent-crackdown-on-protesters/f3d01c2f-34d2-474c-81c4-b6c1530f5533", "Tillis, Bipartisan Group of Senators Warn CCP Against Violent Crackdown on Protesters", "2022-12-02", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), this week sent a bipartisan letter with nearly half of his Senate colleagues to the Chinese ambassador to the United States warning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime of the consequences of a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. Demonstrations have erupted across China in response to the CCP\u2019s severe measures restricting freedoms to contain rising COVID-19 infections.\n\n\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has gone too far with their harsh \u2018zero covid,\u2019 giving the people of China no freedom in their own country,\u201d said Senator Tillis. \u201cWith peaceful protesting erupting all over the country in opposition to these crackdowns, President Xi and the CCP should think twice before taking violent action against their own people, which is why I am proud to join many of my colleagues in sending this crucial letter.\u201d\n\nRead the full text of the letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/12/tillis-bipartisan-group-of-senators-warn-ccp-against-violent-crackdown-on-protesters/f3d01c2f-34d2-474c-81c4-b6c1530f5533"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6292869113385677, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}