'The Biden Admin Continues To Conceal Attempts For More Transparency': GOP Senator Rips President

thank you chairman um at the recent G7 meeting in Japan President Biden described the Chinese the China spy balloon incident in which a Chinese high altitude surveillance ship violated American sovereignty as quote silly to be frank I don't find the Chinese spy balloon instrument to be silly it neither do the American people that's why in my capacity as ranking member of the banking subcommittee that oversees export controls I send a letter to secretary raimondo yesterday in this letter I requested export licensing data from Commerce Department's Bureau of industry and security to see what American Technologies were approved for export to China's Aerospace sector including to those in China who manufacture these types of spy blooms and their payloads Mr chair I'd like to submit this letter for the record the objection sorry thank you assistant secretaries kenler and Axelrod do you agree to fully comply with my request for export licensing data which section 1761 of the export control Reform Act of 2018 or ekra requires the Commerce Department if asked to share with my subcommittee Senator we will certainly comply with the terms of ekra in responding to your letter Mr Max rod same answer Senator thank you I'm very concerned about news reports that the Biden Administration continues to conceal attempts for more transparency on China's spyboon incident including a taxpayer-funded FBI report on this incident that's why I'm using my Authority Under ecura to ensure transparency on the extent to which U.S technology exports have contributed to threats like China's spyballing program on April 26 secretary raimondo told Congress that her department has put over 200 companies on the entity list for export controls during her tenure this statistic appears like an accomplishment at face value but it falls drastically sort of the short of the previous administration standard frankly in 2020 the Commerce Department added 147 companies to The Entity list and in 2021 that number decreased to 85 and in 2022 that number further decreased down to 68 Chinese companies that have been added to the entity list assistant secretary Kindler what's the explanation for this drastic decrease in the Commerce Department's entities listings Senator I'd like to make sure that you have the right information I believe it's 205 entities that have been added under the Biden Administration in China are you disputing the level that I'm talking about these numbers add up to that number over the course of two and a half years just in the last year of the previous administration 147 companies were added at the end of the list and what we have seen is they decrease year over year to get to the total that you just named but why are we decreasing why are you decreasing the activity in light of the fact that we've seen more and more of Chinese the CCP I should say predatory behavior Senator I just want to make sure that we're being clear that these are Chinese entities not overall entities it is correct that 205 entities in China have been added to the entity list why has there been a decrease year over year that's my question can I get back to you on that I want to make sure that we're operating with the same data please the data shows that there has been a decrease and I want to understand the trend what's underlying The Dread we are deeply focused is one of the two pillars of export controls on entities that pose National Security and foreign policy threats to the United States particularly in China I am very concerned about this decrease I'm also concerned about the fact that the Commerce Department still permits exports of U.S technology to China's most worrisome state-owned defense Enterprises including and I want to be specific here aviation industry Corporation of China China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation let's turn to another issue that very much concerns me that's Huawei when I served as U.S ambassador to Japan I worked very closely with the kitchen cabinet of Japanese government leaders Japanese Business Leaders to understand the threat of Huawei and what they could do in the 5G Arena I took my analysis back to Washington I met with the president we put a lot of pressure on the situation persuaded this government to take action against Huawei and 5G I did the same with the government of Japan to get Huawei out of 5G I want to talk to you now about this issue which clearly is of deep importance to me I was very upset and Disturbed to see an article in Reuters on May 11th that cited internal emails indicating that state department delayed significant U.S measures against China after the Spy balloon incident including far-reaching export controls on Huawei this is in May of this year so assistant secretary's Kendra Rosen had the Commerce Department's Bureau of industry and security prepared a draft rule to revoke export control licenses related to Huawei Senator Ouija we did a draft rule however we are looking very close tell me if you've received any guidance from within the Commerce department or from anywhere in the interagency to back off and not do this Senator we are working closely and we are under deep analysis of this issue Huawei I am very concerned to see this Administration basically back off in kowtow just so they can obtain high-level meetings with with you know officials in China this makes no sense we should be speaking from a position of strength not weakness and this backing off is absolutely unacceptable Senator we have not backed off

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Published: Sat Jun 03 2023