I
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2580
To ensure that commercial activities of the People’s Liberation Army of
China or any Communist Chinese military company in the United States
are monitored and are subject to the authorities under the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 30, 1997
Mrs. FOWLER (for herself, Mr. COX of California, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. GILMAN,
Mr. HUNTER, Mr. HYDE, Mr. SAM JOHNSON, Mr. MCINTOSH, Mr.
ROHRABACHER, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey,
Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. SPENCE, Mr. WOLF, and Ms. PELOSI) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Rela-
tions
A BILL
To ensure that commercial activities of the People’s Libera-
tion Army of China or any Communist Chinese military
company in the United States are monitored and are
subject to the authorities under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The People’s Liberation Army is the prin-
cipal instrument of repression within the People’s
Republic of China, responsible for occupying Tibet
since 1950, massacring hundreds of students and
demonstrators for democracy in Tiananmen Square
on June 4, 1989, and running the Laogai (‘‘reform
through labor’’) slave labor camps.
(2) The People’s Liberation Army is engaged in
a massive military buildup, which has involved a
doubling since 1992 of announced official figures for
military spending by the People’s Republic of China.
(3) The People’s Liberation Army is engaging
in a major ballistic missile modernization program
which could undermine peace and stability in East
Asia, including 2 new intercontinental missile pro-
grams, 1 submarine-launched missile program, a
new class of compact but long-range cruise missiles,
and an upgrading of medium- and short-range bal-
listic missiles.
(4) The People’s Liberation Army is working to
coproduce the SU–27 fighter with Russia, and is in
the process of purchasing several substantial weap-
ons systems from Russia, including the 633 model of
the Kilo-class submarine and the SS–N–22 Sunburn
missile system specifically designed to incapacitate
United States aircraft carriers and Aegis cruisers.
(5) The People’s Liberation Army has carried
out acts of aggression in the South China Sea, in-
cluding the February 1995 seizure of the Mischief
Reef in the Spratley Islands, which is claimed by the
Philippines.
(6) In July 1995 and in March 1996, the Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army conducted missile tests to in-
timidate Taiwan when Taiwan held historic free elec-
tions, and those tests effectively blockaded Taiwan’s
2 principal ports of Keelung and Kaohsiung.
(7) The People’s Liberation Army has contrib-
uted to the proliferation of technologies relevant to
the refinement of weapons-grade nuclear material,
including transferring ring magnets to Pakistan.
(8) The People’s Liberation Army and associ-
ated defense companies have provided ballistic mis-
sile components, cruise missiles, and chemical weap-
ons ingredients to Iran, a country that the executive
branch has repeatedly reported to Congress is the
greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
(9) In May 1996, United States authorities
caught the People’s Liberation Army enterprise Poly
Technologies and the civilian defense industrial com-