Moolenaar, Krishnamoorthi Express Support and Call For Redlines Against Doing Business with CCP-Affiliated Entities in Commerce’s New AI Export Control Framework

WASHINGTON DC — On January 2, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party urged Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to impose strict redlines in a soon to be published ‘Export Control Framework for AI Diffusion.’ This framework would establish the protocols in which high-end U.S. technology used in Artificial Intelligence can be exported abroad.

Chairman Moolenaar and Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi support the Export Control Framework for AI Diffusion, and offered specific recommendations to ensure these controls keep critical and sensitive AI technology out of the Chinese Communist Party’s hands – which they leverage to build the People’s Liberation Army, hack the United States, and oppress Chinese citizens.

In the letter, the lawmakers write, “We strongly encourage you to move forward with this important action. . . . In finalizing the rule, you should impose clear redlines for countries that may want access to U.S. technology. For example, any foreign country that houses a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) base (or has comparable agreements to regularly host PLA assets and personnel or PRC intelligence capabilities) should not be allowed to receive advanced U.S. GPUs, or any country that hosts Huawei cloud computing infrastructure should be restricted from accessing the model weights of closed-weight dual-use AI models.”