WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) joined with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) in urging Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to make public the names of companies owned or controlled by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a strategy of ‘Military-Civilian Fusion’ to achieve its national objectives, enlisting Chinese corporations and universities to harness emerging civilian technology for military purposes,” the four legislators told Esper in a Sept. 11 letter.
