Today, Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China (R-MI) and Ranking Member Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced legislation that would create tax credits to support American magnet production and a domestic magnet supply chain. The Magnets Value Chain Support Act of 2026 would help reshore the magnet supply chain, from rare earth oxide production all the way through to magnet manufacturing and into the motors and defense systems that depend on magnets. This would reduce America's dangerous dependence on China for components essential to economic and national security. 

Today, the Pentagon announced additions to its list of known Chinese military companies (1260H List). The additions include numerous Chinese companies Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and other congressional leaders have requested be added to the list.

Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduced legislation to counter China’s exploitation of the U.S. patent system. The Prohibiting Adversarial Patents Act would prohibit the issuance of a U.S. patent to any person or entity who is identified to be a threat to U.S. national security pursuant to the Non-SDN CMIC List, the 1260H List, or the FCC's Covered List.

Today, Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee of China (R-MI) hosted a bipartisan event on the 37th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. The event featured remarks from Moolenaar, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Congresswoman Jill Tokuda (D-HI), and powerful testimonies from exiled dissidents Arthur Liu - the father of Olympic champion figure skater Alysa Liu - and former U.S. Army Chaplain Yan Xiong.

Today, the House Judiciary Committee passed bipartisan legislation that will target Chinese companies who abuse our nation’s trade laws. The Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act is led by Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar and Select Committee members Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and others. The legislation would create a new Department of Justice task force to enforce trade-related crimes committed by Chinese companies including but not limited to tariff and duty evasion, import and export restrictions, all other laws and regulations involving criminal activities relating to American imports and exports, trade-based money laundering, and smuggling.

Today, Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China (R-MI), Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) introduced the bipartisan Guarding the U.S. Against Adversarial Robotics Dominance (GUARD) Act. The legislation requires scrutiny of robots made by China and other foreign adversaries and would prohibit the importation of robots determined to be a national security threat to the United States. 

Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the Select Committee on China and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced the Biotech Investment National Security Act (BINSA). This legislation would ensure American investment in adversary biotechnology is subject to the review requirements of the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act. This would apply to biotechnology, including pharmaceutical development, biologics manufacturing, and clinical research and development. 


Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar made the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to block the sale of export-controlled chips to Chinese companies located outside of mainland China: 


“Winning the AI race against China requires commonsense export controls that are strictly enforced. The Trump Administration is right to close this loophole—a Chinese company anywhere in the world is subject to the CCP’s national security laws, and it should never be able to get ahold of advanced chips that its parent company in China is legally prohibited from buying. My SCALE Act complements this action by creating a clear export control standard to help secure America’s technology edge in line with President Trump’s AI Action Plan.”

Earlier this month, Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China released a new report examining NASA’s research security compliance a

Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China has sent a letter to Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent urging him to add biotechnology as a prohibited technology under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act of 2025. The request comes in response to a dangerous surge of American capital and knowledge into China’s biotechnology sector, including Bristol Myers Squibb’s recently announced $15 billion deal with China’s Hengrui Pharma that also transfers intellectual property to China.

A new Select Committee on China investigation found JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America helped a Chinese company with ties to forced labor and China’s military raise billions of dollars.

Today, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and Ranking Member Ro Khanna released a new investigation exposing a vast, China-linked scam center network that has defrauded Americans of at least $10 billion annually while fueling human trafficking, cybercrime, and illicit finance.

“These scam centers with deep links to China are a broad network of fraud, human trafficking, cybercrime, and illicit finance that are ripping off Americans and threatening our national security,” warned Moolenaar. “If the Chinese government wanted to act against these criminals, it could, but it chooses not to.”

Today, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar delivered his opening statement at the Select Committee’s hearing titled “Crime, Corruption, and Power: The Rise of CCP-linked Scam Networks Targeting Americans and Threatening U.S. Security.”  

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Good morning.

Our nation confronts one of the fastest-growing and largest financial threats facing Americans: the industrial-scale scam and fraud ecosystem fueled by China and enabled by corruption, weak governance, and illicit finance in Southeast Asia.

In 2024, Americans lost at least $10 billion to these scams. That’s $10 billion—with a B.