Representative Mike Garcia (CA-25), China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), and members of the China Task Force, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging the agency to address several urgent shortcomings in U.S. export control policy in relation to China. The letter comes after recent reports of China’s increasing nuclear capabilities and the likelihood that U.S. technology contributed to China’s advancement. 
 
"Reports that the PRC has tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile is a chilling display of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) capabilities and intentions. To make matters worse, it is likely that U.S. software and tools contributed to the creation of this weapons system, because of our country’s permissive export controls and licensing policies with China. If this is not the clarion call to overhaul export controls and our technology and research collaboration with the PRC and its Military-Civil Fusion strategy, liberal democracies may cede more ground to a genocidal, authoritarian regime,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter. 
 
Garcia currently serves as co-chair of the China Task Force. 
 
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Click here to read Garcia’s recent statement on remaining ahead of China. 
 
Click here to read the letter.