In addition to promoting legislation to counter the threat of the Chinese Communist Party, the House Select Committee on the CCP often publicly urges government agencies, universities, companies, and others to help deter the CCP, help defend the U.S. from it, and stop cooperating with its agenda. A few recent examples:
“Taiwan, China.” May 21, 2025. In a letter to the CEOs of the Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt hotel chains, Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on China and Senator Marsha Blackburn remonstrate against the hotels for referring to “Taiwan, China” in their promotions.
“Using terminology such as ‘Taiwan, China,’ gives false credence to the PRC’s [claim to a] position of authority and sovereignty over Taiwan and implies that Taiwan is the property of the PRC. Not only does this directly contradict U.S. policy, but it also undermines Taiwan’s democratic system.”
Deterring war with China. May 21, 2025. Reporting on a recent hearing about preventing an invasion of the Republic of China by the People’s Republic of China, the Committee lists some of the reasons that “defending Taiwan is good for America,” including deterrence and maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific.
“If Xi Jinping thinks he can take Taiwan without serious consequences, he’s more likely to act. Strong deterrence now reduces the chances of war later.”
“If the CCP takes Taiwan, it would upend the entire security balance in Asia, threatening other allies like Japan, the Philippines, and Australia.”
Autel Energy and the CCP. May 20, 2025. A Committee letter to the Departments of Commerce and Defense urges them to investigate Autel Energy and consider adding the company to national security watchlists in light of its “ability to collect driver data and connect to critical infrastructure.”
“Autel has worked to obscure its Chinese ownership, using a different name in the U.S., highlighting its new assembly facility, and marketing its products as eligible for federal EV infrastructure funds. This mirrors tactics used by its sister company, which falsely promoted a ‘Made in USA’ drone using banned Chinese tech.”
CCP-controlled HarmonyOS. May 20, 2025. The Committee reported on its recommendations to the State Department, Commerce Department, and Federal Communications Commission urging them “to take action against HarmonyOS—the operating system developed by Huawei. Among the actions they recommend is coordination with our allies and partners around the world to prevent its use….
“HarmonyOS could contain backdoors and vulnerabilities designed to facilitate espionage. Moreover, in the context of mobile devices, the use of HarmonyOS will correspond with the use of the Huawei app store – giving the CCP veto power over a device user’s download decisions and the ability to access sensitive code.”
Harvard and China. May 19, 2025. The Committee and others have demanded that Harvard come clean about its “partnerships with foreign adversaries and entities implicated in human rights abuses.”
The Committee’s letter notes Harvard’s “repeated training of members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps—a U.S.-sanctioned paramilitary group that plays a central role in the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide of Uyghur Muslims; research partnerships funded by the Department of Defense with Chinese military-linked universities, including Tsinghua, Zhejiang, and Huazhong Universities; collaborations with Iranian-government-funded researchers, including projects financed by the Iranian National Science Foundation; organ transplantation research involving PRC-based collaborators, amid mounting evidence of the CCP’s forced organ harvesting practices.”
Harvard has flouted sanctions and tried to cover this up. In a post-sanction press release about a training event that included XPCC personnel, the school conspicuously omitted mention of XPCC and even went so far as to blur the name plates of “four of five panelists” in a photo of the event, “which raises questions about why Harvard wanted to keep their identities hidden.”
