ICYMI: “The CCP Will Use This Technology for Evil” – Select Committee Compels US to Dominate Critical Technologies in 21st Century

Tonight, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party explored the CCP’s decades-long history of pillaging American research and intellectual property to build and expand its techno-totalitarian surveillance state.

Following years of the CCP’s annual $300-600 billion theft of US intellectual property, the House Select Committee welcomed Co-Founder of Lux Capital, Josh Wolfe, Former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Bill Evanina, and Senior Fellow of Emerging Technology at the German Marshall Fund, Lindsay Gorman, to recommend targeted defense measures and ensure the US wins the race for critical and emerging technologies in the 21st century.

Watch highlights from the hearing below.

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Chairman Mike Gallagher:

“The former head of the NSA called CCP IP theft ‘the largest transfer of wealth in human history.’ But who is being robbed and harmed? It’s our service members. It’s ordinary Americans…You are being robbed every day, in plain sight, by the Chinese Communist Party.”

Click HERE for a downloadable video of Chairman Gallagher's remarks.

Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi:

“This isn’t just a competition to see whether the CCP or the US gains an economic or military advantage. This is a competition between two distinct systems to determine the values that will be embedded in the foundational technologies of day-to-day life.”

Click HERE for a downloadable video of Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi's remarks.

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