(The Center Square) - Lawmakers and advocates rallied against Chinese President Xi Jinping outside the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday.
U.S. Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and hundreds of others called for Xi and President Donald Trump to discuss the repression of Tibet by the Chinese Communist Party.
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