Sec. 2. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— the People’s Republic of China is conducting a systematic campaign to access and exploit sensitive United States data and intellectual property to modernize its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses, enable human rights abuses, and develop dual-use strategic technologies; access by the People's Republic of China to sensitive United States data and intellectual property poses grave and direct threats to United States national security; the efforts of the People's Republic of China to access such data and intellectual property are supported by a military-civil fusion strategy, through which the People's Republic of China increases the size of its military-industrial complex by compelling civilian Chinese companies and research institutions to support its military and intelligence activities, which results in ostensibly private and civilian companies that access United States capital supporting the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army; the law of the People's Republic of China requires that all citizens of the People's Republic of China cooperate with national security priorities, enabling the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army, including through— the National Security Law of 2015, which states that citizens of the People's Republic of China shall have duties and obligations to maintain national security ; the National Intelligence Law of 2017, which states that all organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence work ; the Data Security Law of 2021, which states that where a public security organ or national security organ needs to obtain data for the sake of national security or for investigating crimes in accordance with the law … the relevant organizations and individuals shall cooperate ; and the Counterespionage Law, revised in 2023, which states that citizens of the People's Republic of China have the duty to maintain the security, honor and interests of the state, and shall not engage in any act that endangers the security, honor or interests of the state ; the export of novel synthetic DNA and RNA sequences provides insight into the designs and research of biotechnology entities, leading to a high potential for intellectual property theft by foreign adversaries; and the United States should therefore control the export of synthetic DNA and RNA sequences to foreign adversaries.