in the PRC, has been found to require students sign Council contracts that require reporting on their work to PRC officials and limitations on students’ academic freedom while abroad. (20) The CCP allows forced labor, low environmental standards, mandated overproduction of products, and minimal worker safeguards, all of which act as non-monetary subsidies to cheapen products from the PRC. (21) Since General Secretary Xi Jinping assumed power, he re-asserted the role of state-owned enterprises in the economy and increased the purchases of shares in private PRC businesses. (22) The Department of Commerce, because of continued PRC government intervention into important sectors of the PRC economy, continues to certify that the PRC remains a non-market economy, alongside the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (23) Upon widespread public acknowledgment and initial United States action to confront MIC2025, the CCP still abides by, but no longer publicly acknowledges MIC2025 or the detailed plans, intentions, and activities to accomplish its 14th Five Year Plan or long-term science and technology goals. 3. Sense of the House of Representatives It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— (1) the United States finds itself in not only a security and diplomatic competition, but one heavily based upon economic and commercial competition