Republican leaders from the House and Senate wrote Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging her to repudiate negotiations with the PRC on Export Controls before her visit to the country later this month.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) Chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, and Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific wrote a letter to Ms. Raimondo after press reports indicated she is considering joining the Chinese government in a "working group" on the topic after her trip to China later this month.
The anticipated working group would discuss export controls on advanced semiconductors.
In the letter, the lawmakers write,
"U.S. export control policy towards the [People's Republic of China] should not be up for negotiation, period… We urge you, prior to your trip, to publicly clarify that U.S. export controls are non-negotiable, and that the PRC should expect more, not less, U.S. export controls moving forward."
"The PRC has no intention of abandoning its Military-Civil Fusion strategy; no intention of allowing U.S. export compliance officers meaningful access to facilities in China; and no intention of abandoning its whole-of-nation effort to achieve independence from western “chokepoint” technologies."
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