US–China Competition Underscores House-Approved NDAA

Congress wants the Pentagon to phase out the use of Chinese computers, investigate TP-Link, and hold China to account over the fentanyl crisis.

The U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington on Dec. 2, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The House passed the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Dec. 10, tying the defense bill to several provisions aimed at curbing the Chinese communist regime’s influence in key U.S. sectors or ending fiscal support for the regime’s human rights abuses by American consumers.

The Senate is set to take up the defense package next. Here are the China-related provisions included in Congress’s bill.

Restricting Investments in Chinese Tech

The Outbound Investment National Security Act included in the massive defense package aims to prevent U.S. dollars from funding “dual-use strategic technologies that benefit a foreign adversary’s military modernization efforts, surveillance states, and human rights abuses.”