This week, the U.S. House and Senate unveiled five pieces of legislation targeting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in areas such as declassifying intelligence on the Wuhan laboratory, restricting CCP government investment in the U.S., protecting intellectual property rights, preventing theft of agricultural technology and banning funding for Beijing’s forced abortion program.
Senators Demand Declassification of Wuhan Virus Institute and Other Outbreak Information
Two Republican senators, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Mike Braun of Indiana, co-sponsored a proposal Wednesday (April 21) that would require intelligence agencies to unblock intelligence related to the Wuhan Virus Institute and the origins of the outbreak, according to a comprehensive report.
The proposal, known as the COVID-19 Origins Act of 2021, calls for the White House to order the Office of the Director of Intelligence (ODNI) to unblock all intelligence on the origins of the outbreak to “prevent a recurrence of similar outbreaks.” ODNI is said to have been collecting intelligence since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Hawley said the Communist government has done everything in its power to stop the investigation, and “for more than a year, anyone who suspected the Wuhan virus institute was branded a conspiracy theorist. The world needs to know if the pandemic came from the negligence of the Wuhan lab.”
Braun noted that “as the investigation and research into the origins of the virus continues, the Biden administration should declassify any potentially linked intelligence to the Wuhan Biological Research Laboratory in China and the coronavirus pandemic.”
The statement also referred to a recent interview with former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield, who previously said he believed the virus did not come from game bats sold on the market but from a laboratory leak, saying that industry would eventually figure out the earliest source of the outbreak.
Bipartisan bill to protect intellectual property reintroduced
On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators, Democrat Chris Van Hollen and Republican Ben Sasse, reintroduced the Protect Intellectual Property Act, calling for tough sanctions against companies and individuals who steal U.S. intellectual property. Van Hollen’s statement said, “Many foreign companies, especially those in China, are hoofing it and stealing American technology, a move that hurts the U.S. economy, jobs and threatens U.S. national security.”
The bill calls for the White House to develop an annual investigative report listing and assessing the merits of participants in technology theft, and calls for a variety of sanctions against offending companies, including asset freezes, bans on bank service loans and prohibitions on U.S. business transactions.
This bill passed the Senate in December 2020, but was not scheduled for a vote in the House in the final days of the 116th Congress, and is being brought up a second time.
Republicans Call for Investigation of Communist China’s Investments in Military Facilities
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a joint proposal Wednesday asking the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review buyers of land near U.S. military installations for any involvement with the Chinese Communist Party or other foreign countries.
The proposal, known as the Protecting Military Installations Areas Act of 2021, was introduced simultaneously in the House and Senate and aims to “restrict any efforts by China (the Chinese Communist Party), Russia, Iran and North Korea to purchase land within 100 miles of a U.S. military installation or within 50 miles of a military zone.”
Senate proposes bill to prevent theft of agricultural gains
On the same day, Senators Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, and Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, sponsored a bill to form a Department of Agriculture Office of Intelligence to investigate and study unusual foreign activity related to agricultural technology property rights and prevent U.S. agricultural technology gains from being “threatened by foreign “The bill is called the 2021 Farm Bill. The bill is titled the Agricultural Intelligence Measures Act of 2021.
The Communist Party of China wants to undermine important U.S. industries through the destruction and theft of intellectual property,” the Cotton statement said, and the agricultural sector is no exception. The new bill helps protect U.S. food and technology, and the agricultural sector is the foundation on which “the nation’s prosperity and freedom depend. Ernst denounced the Communist regime’s long history of “exploiting” Iowa farmers, stealing intellectual property and engaging in other “nefarious activities,” and the new bill would help protect Iowa’s and the nation’s agricultural communities.
Congressman Seeks to Block Indirect Funding of Communist Abortions
The Daily Wire reported Thursday (April 22) that Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has introduced legislation, the “No U.S. Taxpayer Funding for the United Nations Population Fund Act,” that would prohibit U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) because of the latter’s overt involvement in the Chinese Communist Party’s inhumane “Planned Parenthood” program. family planning” program.
In his statement, Roe said the U.S. government should not use taxpayer assets to indirectly fund abortions and sterilizations, especially in support of the Chinese Communist Party, which oppresses people.
He denounced the UNPFA’s partnership with Beijing as support for its persecution of human rights, and called on the Biden administration to follow the policies of the previous administration and not to resume funding for it.
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