This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. An important hearing before the Subcommittee on Information Technology of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives in late 2018, Countering China: Ensuring America Remains the World Leader in Advanced Technologies and Innovation, is reproduced here. This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
The Chairman stated: For more than 40 years, the U.S. has encouraged China to develop its own economy and take its place alongside the U.S. as a central and responsible player on the world stage, but China does not want to join us. They want to replace us. More importantly, China has not been playing fair. They coerce American companies into entering into joint ventures with Chinese companies with close links to the Communist Chinese Government as the price for market access. The United States Trade Representative, which led a seven-month investigation into China's intellectual property theft, recently found that Chinese theft of American IP currently costs between $225 billion and $600 billion annually. The Chinese have not been secretive about their ambitions and their goals. Chinese President Xi made it clear upon taking office that his dream for China is, and I quote, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Critical to Xi's vision of a rejuvenated China's dominance is manufacturing, modern advanced technology. In 2015, China's State Council introduced the Made in China 2025 initiative with the aim to modernize the Chinese economy and become the world leader in manufacturing. Made in China 2025 focuses on promoting breakthroughs in critical sectors of the Chinese economy, and of the sectors this hearing will focus primarily on next-generation IT, a topic that this subcommittee has been exploring for three and a half years. A next-generation IT includes the hardware that make up today's technology and the networks that support communications. Examples include 5G networks, semiconductors, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing. As we explore these issues, we cannot lose sight of the many abuses the oppressive Chinese Government perpetuates on its citizens.
Witnesses included John Neuffer, president and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association; Dean Cheng, senior research fellow, Asian Studies Center, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation; Sarah Cook, senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House; and Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
