Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and leading UK lawmakers from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) have formally written to the 48 Group Club to demand transparency regarding the organization’s extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its “United Front” influence operations. The letter targets the organization’s deep-rooted links to Beijing’s “United Front” influence operations.
Moolenaar and Merkley, who serve as U.S. co-chairs of IPAC, sent the letter with Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP (IPAC UK Co-Chair, former leader of the Conservative Party) and Sarah Champion MP (IPAC UK Member).
Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on China and Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) of the House Committee on Ways and Means called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) CEO Frank Bisignano to examine tax-exempt U.S.-based organizations with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and part of China’s United Front influence operations in the United States.
“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is utilizing United Front organizations, proxies, and intermediaries within the United States—many granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code—to engage in political activity that manipulates our democratic institutions and supports the interests of the CCP,” write Chairmen Moolenaar and Smith in a letter to Secretary Bessent and IRS CEO Bisignano.
Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China made the following statement on Easter and religious freedom in China:
Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China has cosponsored the Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, a bipartisan bill that strengthens U.S. national security by closing critical gaps in export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME). It was introduced by Congressman Michael Baumgartner (R-WA). While the United States has imposed extensive export controls to slow China’s semiconductor indigenization, U.S. allies have not fully matched these measures. This misalignment has left critical gaps that China continues to exploit.
Today, the Select Committee on China released a new investigation uncovering how China buys oil from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela – three countries that are sanctioned by the United States. The investigation, Crude Intentions: How China Became the Cle
The investigation reveals how China acquires oil from countries sanctioned by the United States. It uses a shadow fleet of thousands of largely aging tankers operating under foreign flags owned through opaque corporate to continue acquiring oil from sanctioned exporters. Using ship-to-ship transfers off the coast of Malaysia, sanctioned crude is disguised by reissued certificates of origin, bills of lading, and cargo manifests that erase its sanctioned provenance.
Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed bipartisan legislation to curb the smuggling of American semiconductors to foreign adversaries. The Chip Security Act was introduced last year as a direct response to bipartisan concerns raised by the Select Committee on China in its report on Deepseek, which concluded the company used advanced chips produced by American semiconductor giant Nvidia that are restricted from export to the PRC to develop its AI model.
Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Ro Khanna (D-CA) of the House Select Committee on China, issued the following statement following reports that Taiwan was blocked from attending the 14th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon:
“Cameroon’s decision to effectively exclude Taiwan from the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé is another troubling example of China’s continued efforts to manipulate multilateral institutions.