House Lawmakers Urge Defense Secretary Austin to Add Chinese Biotech Firms to Military List

China’s military and academic literature has argued that ’success on the future battlefield will require achieving biological dominance.’

U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin talks to the media at the seventh gathering of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at Ramstein air base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, on March 19, 2024. Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images

The top Republican and the Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are calling on the Biden administration to add seven Chinese biotech firms to a Pentagon list of “Chinese military companies.”

In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on March 29, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) said the seven firms are likely contributors to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) under China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) strategy.