The efforts that the FBI has taken to encourage impacted communities to report incidents of transnational repression is admirable, but it will only be as strong as the willingness of communities to come forward. Similarly, the Transnational Repression Policy Act instructs DHS to create a tip line for victims and witnesses of transnational repression to share information with the US government—but again, these communities need to trust that this information will be acted on in a beneficial, not harmful, way and this will require trust. This touches on a last point. The strategy to combat transnational repression domestically will be strengthened with improved global coordination to tackle bad actors. Given the cross-border nature of this crime, the repression may begin in the origin country, but it can touch other countries along the way, in a chain of repression that ultimately can impact US interests. For example, both Saudi Arabia and Egypt have consented to China’s requests that Uyghur dissidents be repatriated to China—despite the risks that those dissidents will be imprisoned and sent to “reeducation” centers. And multiple US residents who are dissidents from authoritarian regimes have been detained or abducted while traveling through the UAE and sent to their origin country. US law enforcement should work with their counterparts in allied countries to assess why this is happening and undertake efforts to better protect dissidents. *** Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee, thank you again. I look forward to your questions.