WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Rick Scott introduced the Prying into Chinese Tyrants’ Unreported Riches, Earnings, and Secrets (PICTURES) Act which directs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to produce a detailed report, including any photographic evidence, on the wealth and hidden assets of senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The PICTURES Act will expose the vast financial wealth of top CCP elites including General Secretary Xi Jinping, particularly assets concealed overseas or funneled through financial proxies, to better inform U.S. national security and foreign policy decisions as well as to expose Xi and other leaders of one of the world’s wealthiest and most corrupt authoritarian regimes.

Senator Rick Scott said, “Communist China’s ruthless regime has built a throne of lies, theft, and tyranny that undermines the very principles of the United States. The regime in Communist China is lying to its people and the world - it’s time the American people see the truth behind the CCP’s carefully manufactured image. My PICTURES Act exposes the hypocrisy of dictators like Xi preaching the principles of communism, while living like emperors hiding billions in secret offshore accounts and profiting off the labor of the nation’s people. General Secretary Xi and his cronies are not world leaders, they’re authoritarian profiteers who threaten freedom and the American way of life at every turn. I look forward to the quick passage of this bill to highlight just how corrupt Communist China really is.”

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