Following a six-week recess, the House of Representatives is set to begin fast-tracking approval of a series of China-related bills on Monday aimed at countering America's growing foe.
With just three weeks of Congressional work until the November election, the Republican-led House of Representatives is wasting precious floor time on legislation to eradicate Chinese spyware from the country and set the stage for the next president to take tougher action against Beijing.
“We wanted to bring all of this together into a week to really focus on the fact that we need to aggressively confront the China threat,” House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise told Fox News Digital about the planned “China Week.”
“I think some of these bills will really have bipartisan support,” the Louisiana Republican said. “All of these bills should be passed on a bipartisan basis because what China is doing right now is a direct threat to our national security. If they have strong bipartisan support, they have a better chance of passing the Senate.”
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“We wanted to bring all of this together into one week to really focus on the fact that we need to aggressively confront the China threat,” House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise told Fox News Digital about the planned “China Week.” (Reuters/Mike Seeger)
Scalise said four bills will be introduced under the rules, meaning they will be debated on the House floor and members can offer amendments, and there are more bills being introduced under suspension of the rules, meaning the House is aiming to pass them quickly without debate.
Scalise brought up a bill that would reverse Biden administration guidance that allowed Chinese-made electric vehicles to qualify for a $7,500 tax credit, a move that even infuriated Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat-turned-independent who helped write the anti-inflation bill that allowed the credit.
The End China's Electric Vehicle Dominance Act, introduced by Rep. Carol Miller of Virginia, would tighten the definition of a Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) for 30D electric vehicles eligible for the tax credit, excluding vehicles with major parts made in China.
The other bill would broadly ban China from buying American farmland. As of 2023, Chinese companies will own about 380,000 acres of farmland in the United States, less than 1%.
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The other bill, the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act, would prohibit the United States from acceding to any pandemic preparedness agreement negotiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) without two-thirds approval by the Senate.

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“We're giving the administration an extra cushion so that they can't partner with the WHO and put together an agreement that would be really bad policy for the United States,” Scalise said.
Another bill, the BIOSECURE Act, would ban federal agencies that run laboratories from using biotechnology equipment from companies that risk using data to send it back to the Chinese Communist Party.
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The other bill is a Department of Homeland Security ban on Confucius Institutes and other China-related groups that would ban federal funding from going to universities with ties to Confucius Institutes run by the Chinese Communist Party.
“China is becoming more involved in our institutions of higher education,” Scalise said.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), under former President Donald Trump's administration, Congress in 2018 “restricted federal funding to schools with labs, and since then, nearly all of the labs have been closed.”
The other bill would re-establish a task force created within the Justice Department under President Trump that was focused on Chinese espionage.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray estimated last year that the bureau had more than 2,000 active investigations related to Chinese espionage.
The FBI estimates that Chinese counterfeit goods, pirated software, and stolen trade secrets have cost the U.S. economy between $225 billion and $600 billion.