The Select: A Weekly Committee Recap (Week of 11/18)
Welcome to The Select, a weekly newsletter on the work of the Congressional Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party led by Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI).
See below for last week's updates.
Select Committee on the CCP Holds Defense Industrial Base Simulation
On Wednesday, members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party participated in a bipartisan, interactive simulation run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on the state of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base.
CSIS's Defense and Security Department experts led the lawmakers through a simulation of a Taiwan conflict in the Indo-Pacific and discussed ways Congress, in a bipartisan manner, can revitalize and reconfigure America's defense industrial base to deter and be prepared for such an event.
Read the full findings HERE.
ICYMI: Moolenaar Joins NewsNation to Discuss Revoking China's Trade Status as a 'Most Favored Nation'
On Tuesday, Chairman Moolenaar joined NewsNation Monday evening to discuss his new legislation that revokes China's Permanent Normal Trade Relations and creates a level playing field for American businesses.
Watch the Chairman's full NewsNation interview HERE, read the full transcript HERE.
ICYMI: House Panel on Chinese Communist Party Threats Survives Into New Congress
In case you missed it, Bill Gertz from the Washington Times reported on the future of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI).
Read the full piece HERE.
Moolenaar, Green, Gimenez on DHS Blacklisting Major Supplier of CCP-Aligned Gotion & CATL Battery Companies for Forced Labor
On Friday, Chairman Moolenaar, Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) released the below statement following news that the Department of Homeland Security's Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force placed new Chinese companies on its forced labor entity list, which are tied to both CATL and Gotion. CATL and Gotion are Chinese Communist Party-affiliated electric vehicle battery companies with plans to build and operate new facilities in the United States, partially financed by federal and state taxpayer dollars.
“While we are pleased with this initial step, we remain concerned that CATL and Gotion’s supply chains are deeply tied to the Xinjiang region. It is past time to stop spending taxpayer dollars partnering with Gotion and CATL. American companies should cut ties with these Chinese Communist Party-aligned battery companies and focus on developing a resilient supply chain free of forced labor. The Biden-Harris Administration rules that would allow American taxpayer dollars to subsidize Chinese batteries tainted by slave labor must also be reversed. Additionally, we must advance our bipartisan legislation, the Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependency Act, to not only eradicate forced labor from U.S. supply chains, but to reduce our dependency on China.”
Moolenaar, Krishnamoorthi Express Concern About Potential Evasion of FCC Restrictions by Major PRC Video Surveillance Equipment Manufacturer
On Wednesday, Chairman Moolenaar 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 sent a letter to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel of the Federal Communications Commission concerning a recent transaction involving Zhejiang Dahua Technology (Dahua), a leading video surveillance equipment manufacturer from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Read the lawmakers' letter HERE.
Moolenaar: Hong Kong Legal System Controlled by CCP
On Thursday, Chairman Moolenaar released the statement below following the sentencing of 45 Hong Kong activists to up to ten years in prison and the resumption of Jimmy Lai's sham trial yesterday.
“This week saw Hong Kong authorities, acting at the behest of the CCP, impose harsh and unjust prison sentences against courageous pro-democracy Hong Kongers. Whether it be the sentencing of the Hong Kong 47 or the resumption of the show trial against Jimmy Lai, it is clear that Hong Kong’s legal system has been degraded and is controlled by the CCP. I condemn these acts in the harshest terms and urge the State Department to sanction the Hong Kong officials, prosecutors, and judges responsible for these unjust court proceedings.”