WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote to the Departments of Defense and Transportation, exposing critical deficiencies in the United States’ military sealift capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. The Chinese military has embarked on an unprecedented naval buildup. Meanwhile, our aging and underfunded fleet of sealift ships will be relied on to transport ninety percent of all Army and Marine Corps equipment to support large-scale operations in the Indo-Pacific. Gallagher called the current situation a “screaming national security vulnerability.”

Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense’s (DoD) recent inclusion of more than a dozen new People’s Republic of China (PRC) companies – including PRC LiDAR maker Hesai Technology – on its “Chinese Military Companies List”.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee urged the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to work expeditiously to initiate a rulemaking on shipping exchanges and establish healthy and fair competition in the global shipping market.

“CCP state-owned enterprises are quickly gaining market dominance in global shipping exchanges,” said Chairman Gallagher. “The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission must accelerate much-needed regulation to ensure American shippers and exchanges are not steamrolled by their CCP-backed counterparts.”