global economy, and the United States controlled 31 percent. Today, the People’s Republic of China stands at 15 percent and the United States share has dropped to 24 percent. (6) The growth of the People’s Republic of China’s centrally controlled economy has been fueled largely by tools of economic coercion, including intellectual property theft and economic espionage of U.S. companies. In 2019 alone, one in five North American-based companies said that Chinese firms had stolen their intellectual property (IP) within the last year. (7) Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has stated that the People’s Republic of China is perpetrating the greatest intellectual property theft in human history . (8) In addition to its economic aggression and military modernization, the People’s Republic of China conducts political warfare and disinformation campaigns against the United States and other democracies. It frequently targets academia, the media, business, and cultural institutions to suppress criticism and promote positive views of the CCP. (9) The foremost victims of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party are the Chinese people who continue to suffer under communist authoritarian rule. (10) The People’s Republic of China continues to perpetuate a genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, in addition to brutal crackdowns against the people of Tibet and Hong Kong. (11) The CCP continues to obfuscate the origins of the COVID–19 pandemic which started in Wuhan, China and has refused to allow an impartial international investigation into the origins of the pandemic. (12) Manifestations of expressions of racism, bigotry, discrimination, anti-Asian rhetoric, and xenophobia against people of Asian descent are contrary to the values we hold dearest as Americans, counterproductive to countering the CCP’s malign influence, and denounced by the Congress of the United States. 3. Severability If any provision of this Act, or an amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision