Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) have introduced the Connected Vehicle Security Act. The legislation would prohibit the importation, manufacture, and sale of connected vehicles, software, and hardware linked to China.

This weekend, The New York Times reported on a Chinese espionage effort that targeted the staff of the Select Committee on China.

Chairman John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) announced today they plan to introduce bipartisan legislation to ban Chinese vehicles from U.S. roads.

“Every vehicle on American roads is a rolling data collection device, capturing information on location, movement, people, and infrastructure in real time, and we cannot allow Chinese vehicles or components to be a part of that system," said the lawmakers. "The legislation we introduce will show bipartisan support for doing what must be done to protect the manufacturing sector, jobs, and the American people from China’s predatory trade practices and manipulative attacks on American industry.”

Today, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar introduced the Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites from Foreign Adversaries Act. This legislation takes decisive action to safeguard U.S. national security and food security by closing gaps in federal oversight of foreign land acquisitions. For too long, foreign adversaries like China have been able to purchase American farmland and real estate near sensitive national security sites with limited scrutiny, and in many cases none at all. These purchases pose risks to critical infrastructure, military readiness, and the resilience of the U.S. food supply.

The Select Committee on China supports the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) swift and decisive action to strengthen safeguards for the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program that provides researchers with supercomputing resources and data services. After engagement with the Select Committee, NSF identified a number of ineligible users within the ACCESS system and immediately terminated those accounts, reinforcing the integrity of U.S. taxpayer-funded research infrastructure. 

The Select Committee on China’s three-part investigative report on China’s global mining practices – China’s Minerals Mafia: A Global Pattern of Corruption, Environmental Destruction, and Human Rights Abuse – reports on widespread exploitation and abuse in Zimbabwe’s lithium sector which is now largely controlled by Chinese companies.

China is destroying the planet and leaving behind a trail of corruption and human rights abuses in its quest to dominate critical minerals. That is the conclusion of the Select Committee’s new three-part report documenting 14 cases of Chinese mining companies – under the control of the Chinese Communist Party – engaging in “corrupt, illegal, and abusive practices in countries around the world…including exploitation of weak and indebted governments, corrupt and predatory business practices, the use of forced and child labor, [and] environmental destruction.”