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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7325 
To direct the Attorney General to prepare a report on the Department 
of Justice activities related to countering Chinese national security 
threats, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2022 
Mr. FITZGERALD (for himself, Mr. ISSA, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. C. SCOTT FRANK-
LIN of Florida, Mr. BUCK, Ms. STEFANIK, and Mr. GOHMERT) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To direct the Attorney General to prepare a report on the 
Department of Justice activities related to countering 
Chinese national security threats, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Countering Chinese 
Espionage Reporting Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) The Chinese Communist Party poses perva-
sive and growing threats to United States domestic 
national security. 
(2) On November 1, 2018, the Department of 
Justice launched a new initiative, referred to as the 
‘‘China Initiative’’, to address some of the most crit-
ical threats to United States domestic national secu-
rity posed by the Chinese regime. 
(3) The China Initiative has sought to identify 
and prosecute Chinese trade secret theft and eco-
nomic espionage and to protect American critical in-
frastructure and supply chains from covert influence. 
(4) The Chinese Communist Party’s aggression 
is a pervasive and growing problem, as approxi-
mately 80 percent of all Federal economic espionage 
prosecutions involve alleged conduct that would ben-
efit the Chinese Communist Party, and about 60 
percent of all United States trade secret theft cases 
have a nexus to the Chinese Communist Party. 
(5) According to the Commission on the Theft 
of American Intellectual Property, the Chinese Com-
munist Party’s theft of United States intellectual 
property is estimated to cost the United States econ-
omy 
between 
$225,000,000,000 
to 
$600,000,000,000 annually. 
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(6) The Department of Justice has identified 
academia as one of the sectors of the United States 
economy that are most vulnerable to trade secret 
theft and economic espionage by the Chinese Com-
munist Party. The Chinese Communist Party ex-
ploits the American tradition of openness and the 
free flow of ideas for its own benefit. 
(7) The widespread and dangerous threats 
posed by the Chinese Communist Party has been un-
derscored by the most senior-level United States 
Government officials. 
(8) On November 1, 2018, the former Assistant 
Attorney for the Department of Justice’s National 
Security Division stated, ‘‘China wants the fruits of 
America’s brainpower to harvest the seeds of its 
planned economic dominance. Preventing this from 
happening will take all of us, here at the Justice De-
partment, across the U.S. Government, and within 
the private sector’’. 
(9) On June 24, 2020, the former National Se-
curity Advisor of the White House stated that the 
Chinese Communist Party ‘‘is seeking leverage over 
individual Americans’’ and ‘‘collecting your most in-
timate data—your words, your actions, your pur-
chases, your whereabouts, your health records, your 
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social media posts, your texts, and mapping your 
network of friends, family, and acquaintances’’. 
(10) On July 7, 2020, the Director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation warned that ‘‘[t]he 
greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information 
and intellectual property, and to our economic vital-
ity, is the counterintelligence and economic espio-
nage threat from China’’. 
(11) The Director of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation added that ‘‘[w]e’ve now reached the 
point where the FBI is opening a new China-related 
counterintelligence case about every 10 hours. Of the 
nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases 
currently underway across the country, almost half 
are related to China’’. 
(12) On July 16, 2020, the former Attorney 
General of the Department of Justice stated that 
‘‘[t]he ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to 
trade with the United States. It is to raid the 
United States’’. 
(13) On July 23, 2020, the former Secretary of 
the Department of State stated that ‘‘[w]e [the 
United States] must admit a hard truth that should 
guide us in the years and decades to come, that if 
we want a free 21st century, and not the Chinese 
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century of which Xi Jingping dreams, the old para-
digm of blind engagement with China simply won’t 
get it done. We must not continue it and we must 
not return it’’. 
(14) Actions by the Biden administration have 
raised serious concerns about its commitment to 
confront the national security threats posed by the 
Chinese Communist Party. 
(15) In July 2021, the Biden administration’s 
Department of Justice moved to dismiss charges 
against several suspected Chinese researchers ac-
cused of concealing ties to the Chinese military. 
(16) On February 23, 2022, the Biden adminis-
tration’s Department of Justice announced the end 
of its national security program aimed at prioritizing 
and countering legitimate threats of economic espio-
nage, theft of American intellectual property and re-
search, and other threats posed by the Chinese Com-
munist Party to the United States. 
(17) This action comes at a time when Presi-
dent Biden’s leadership in only a short period has 
resulted in many foreign policy missteps, notably in 
Afghanistan, Russia, and Iran. 
(18) The United States efforts to combat the 
Chinese Communist Party’s malign activities should 
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actively protect United States domestic national se-
curity, and address the strategic failures described 
in this section. 
SEC. 3. REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ACTIVITIES 
RELATED 
TO 
COUNTERING 
CHINESE 
NA-
TIONAL SECURITY THREATS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and each year thereafter 
for 7 years, the Attorney General shall submit to the Com-
mittees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
and of the Senate a report that includes each of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) A description of the activities and oper-
ations of the Department of Justice related to coun-
tering Chinese national security threats and espio-
nage in the United States, including trade secret 
theft, theft of United States intellectual property 
and research, and threats from non-traditional col-
lectors, such as researchers in laboratories, at uni-
versities, and at defense industrial base facilities (as 
that term is defined in section 2208(u)(3) of title 
10, United States Code). 
(2) An accounting of the resources of the De-
partment of Justice that are dedicated to programs 
aimed at combating national security threats posed 
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by the Chinese Communist Party, and any sup-
porting information as to the efficacy of each such 
program. 
(b) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi-
fied annex. On the date on which the Attorney General 
submits each report under subsection (a), the Attorney 
General shall make such report publicly available on the 
website of the Department of Justice. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In preparing the report under 
subsection (a), the Attorney General shall consult with 
other appropriate officials. 
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