Additional Background
- Bill text can be found here.
- China is illegitimately using the whole array of geopolitical tools available (DIME):
Diplomatic
- Holding countries hostage through “debt-trap diplomacy” with the highly misleading Belt and Road Initiative
- Building artificial islands in the South China Sea to make spurious claims of ownership AND ignoring an international court's condemnation of this encroaching on the sovereignty of the Philippines
- Violating negotiations to curb intellectual property theft
- Breaking democracy agreements with the semi-autonomous government of Hong Kong
Informational
- Censoring domestic media to prevent their public from knowing the extent of the CCP’s human rights violations on its own people and from being exposed to the benefits of democracy
- Utilizing American companies’ technology to spy on and oppress the Chinese Muslim population
- Hijacking networks to destroy the world's privacy and security with backdoors already discovered in Italy by Vodafone AND the African Union's network data being sent to Shanghai servers for 5 years
Military
- Stealing of blueprints from the United States’ F-35 program and the hacking of other DOD records
- Deployment of forces in the South China Sea to scare away others despite no legitimate legal claim
- Deployment of forces in the East China Sea to scare away others despite no legitimate legal claim
- Assisted the Taliban economically AND cooperated with the Taliban and al Qaeda militarily after 9/11
Economic
