WASHINGTON D.C. –– Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 5, 2025, to examine threats posed to the homeland by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“The People’s Republic of China is working tirelessly to unseat the United States as the global hegemon, using the Chinese Communist Party as its greatest weapon of global information warfare,” Chairman Green said. “From infiltrating American higher education and operating clandestine police stations on U.S. soil to conducting cyber espionage and undermining our supply chains––Beijing casts an authoritarian shadow upon the United States. When dissident voices speak out on these threats in our communities and abroad, far too many are harassed and silenced by operatives of the CCP. As America’s greatest geopolitical adversary threatens our homeland security, I look forward to hearing from this panel of experts on how to take decisive action.”

Read more in The Washington Times via Bill Gertz.

DETAILS:  
 
What: A House Homeland Security Committee hearing entitled “Countering Threats Posed by the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Security.”

When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 10:00 AM ET 
 
Where: 310 Cannon House Office Building 
 
WITNESSES:
 
Dr. Michael Pillsbury
Senior Fellow, China Strategy, Heritage Foundation
 
The Hon. Bill Evanina
Founder and CEO, the Evanina Group 
 
Craig Singleton 
China Program Senior Director and Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Dr. Rush Doshi

Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

Witness testimony will be added here. The hearing will be livestreamed on YouTube and will be opened to the public and the press. Press must be congressionally credentialed and should RSVP by Tuesday, March 4, at 6:00 PM ET.
 
BACKGROUND:
 
On February 11, Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, led a hearing to examine how enterprises owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) could be leveraging commercial port operations in the Western Hemisphere to project power, enable surveillance, facilitate illicit trafficking, and position themselves to disrupt U.S. military logistics and trade routes during a geopolitical crisis or conflict. 

As highlighted in a joint investigative report with the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, PRC entities maintain financial stakes and operational control over key terminals at major U.S. ports and also could potentially influence port operations through dominance in port equipment manufacturing, including ship-to-shore cranes.  

The Committee continues to lead legislation addressing threats from the CCP:

• Chairman Gimenez has reintroduced the “Decoupling from Foreign Adversarial Battery Dependence Act,” which prohibits the Department of Homeland Securityfrom procuring batteries from six companies owned and operated in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and advance efforts to decouple the supply chain from the United States’ geopolitical adversary. This legislation was passed by the House of Representatives last Congress.
• Rep. Dale Strong (R-AL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology, has reintroduced the “SHIELD Against the CCP Act,” which requires the Department of Homeland Security to establish a working group to counter the CCP’s threats to the United States. This legislation was passed by the House of Representatives last Congress.
• Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, has reintroduced the “DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act,” which restricts DHS funding to an institution of higher education (IHE) that has a relationship with a Chinese entity of concern or Confucius Institute. This legislation was passed by the House of Representatives last Congress.

In the Committee’s first hearing of the 119th Congress, members examined global cybersecurity threats to the homeland, especially the CCP’s ongoing access to our networks and its pre-positioning efforts in our critical infrastructure. Read the Committee’s “Cyber Threat Snapshot” examining growing cyber threats posed by malign nation-states, and criminal networks.   

From February 2021 to August 2024, there have been over 60 CCP-related espionage cases in 20 states, including the transmission of sensitive military information, the stealing of trade secrets, the execution of transnational repression schemes, and the obstruction of justice. Read the Committee’s newest “China Threat Snapshot,” revealing that CCP-related threats to the homeland have grown rapidly in recent years.

According to the FBI, about 80 percent of economic espionage prosecutions allege conduct that would benefit China, and there is at least some nexus to China in around 60 percent of all trade secret theft cases. This month, Chairman Green introduced the “China Technology Transfer Control Act,” which imposes stronger export controls to help prevent China’s military from acquiring sensitive U.S. technology and intellectual property. 

According to the Freedom House, the CCP is a top perpetrator of transnational repression in the world to silence dissidents critical of the regime. In January 2024, Chairman Pfluger heard testimony from Dr. Bob Fu, a Chinese dissident and victim of heinous acts of transnational repression by the CCP. Fu’s testimony informed the introduction of three bills to counter transnational repression on U.S. soil, which were advanced out of the Committee last Congress. 

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