engaged in a purposeful and unfair practice of acquiring United States businesses to generate technology transfers. (9) The Chinese Government is engaged in cyber attacks against United States businesses, military installations, and government entities, including the United States Office of Personnel Management, resulting in the theft of untold proprietary information and commercial trade secrets. (10) China is undertaking the greatest intellectual property theft in human history according to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. (11) Congress must take bold action to combat the Chinese Government’s concerted efforts to perpetrate cyber attacks against United States entities and steal United States intellectual property. (12) Denial orders are issued by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement of the Bureau of Industry and Security to deny the export privileges of an entity or individual. A denial of export privileges prohibits the person from participating in any way in any transaction subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Furthermore, it is unlawful for any other entity or individual to participate in any way in an export transaction subject to the EAR with a person subject to a denial order. (13) On April 16, 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce had issued an order to deny the export privileges of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation of Shenzhen, China (“ZTE Corporation”) and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China. 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) denial orders are an important foreign policy tool to use against foreign entities and individuals, especially Chinese persons, with a pattern of violating United States laws, especially laws relating to intellectual property