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Republican chairs of three House committees jointly wrote a letter inviting Jensen Huang to attend a closed-door briefing at Congress on November 18.

The United States is holding its congressional midterm elections, with all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate up for election.

On October 14, 2026, John Moolenaar, Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, sent a letter to the Pentagon urging the expansion of the list of military-linked entities under Section 1286 of the National Defense Authorization Act. The letter calls for the inclusion of 14 Chinese Academy of Sciences institutes, 62 key Chinese and defense laboratories, 58 universities co-built or supported by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, 22 foreign malicious talent programs, and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) along with its scholars. The committee also demands a comprehensive ban on any scholars receiving CSC funding from participating in Pentagon-funded research projects.

U.S. Congress bipartisan lawmakers introduce a resolution, urging the Trump administration to prioritize the immediate unconditional release of Uyghur doctor Guli Xian Abbas, who has been forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government for eight years.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill with 262 votes in favor and 159 against, authorizing the imposition of tariffs on countries that are top purchasers of Russian energy. These countries could face tariffs of up to 100 percent. The bill was introduced by the Republican Party, with 58 Democratic representatives supporting it and 7 Republican representatives voting against it. After passing, the bill was sent to the White House and still requires the President's signature. The relevant measures affect countries that purchase Russian energy, such as China and India.

During the congressional recess, lawmakers from both parties gathered in the House reception hall before leaving Washington to pay tribute to the American lives lost in the 9/11 attacks and to express gratitude to the first responders on the front lines.

The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed the Guard Act, requiring a review of robots manufactured by foreign adversaries such as China and banning the import of products deemed to pose a national security threat.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act, requiring the Department of Justice to establish a task force to investigate and prosecute trade crimes, including those involving Chinese companies.

Two committee chairs of the US House of Representatives sent letters to DoorDash executives, requesting clarification on whether the platform integrates open-weight artificial intelligence models developed in China and the associated security risks.

The U.S. House passed the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 216 to 212. The bill's total sets a record and provides a policy blueprint for next year's military spending.

Committee Chairman Moolenaar said that China obtains U.S. technology through universities, laboratories and scientific research cooperation, and that the United States should strengthen research security to prevent federal funding from supporting research that could serve China's military modernization.

The U.S. Congress officially passed Resolution No. 444, introduced by Republican Senator Scott, yesterday, condemning Xi Jinping's tyranny, characterizing Xi Jinping as a brutal dictator, and accusing him of committing crimes against humanity and genocide.

The program said that Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. Congress reached consensus on bills targeting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the related bills passed nearly unanimously.

The Falun Gong Protection Act calls for sanctions against individuals suspected of participating in grave human rights violations such as the forced harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners. It has twice been passed by the House of Representatives and is currently awaiting consideration by the Senate.

U.S. Representatives including John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, have introduced a bill called the “Adversary Patent Prohibition Act,” which would bar the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from granting patents to Chinese entities deemed a national security threat.

Lawmakers from both US parties said that, amid tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, they would continue to support allies such as the Philippines and uphold international law and the right to navigate international waters.

Two Republican lawmakers in the US Congress have proposed the "Prohibiting People's Liberation Army Employees Act," which would ban current and former employees of Chinese companies identified by the Pentagon as being linked to the Chinese military from entering the United States, and deport those already within the US.

A bipartisan group of US House lawmakers has introduced the "Cloud Security Act," aiming to close loopholes in US export controls and prevent adversaries like China from acquiring advanced AI chips through cloud service providers.

Congress pre-approved $14 billion in arms sales to Taiwan this January.

On February 21, 2025, bipartisan members of both houses of the U.S. Congress jointly introduced a resolution explicitly opposing the CCP's distortion of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, reaffirming that the U.S. "one China policy" is not equivalent to the CCP's "one China principle," and supporting Taiwan's international participation.

After the Carter administration severed diplomatic relations with the Republic of China and terminated the Mutual Defense Treaty in 1979, the U.S. Congress drew up the Taiwan Relations Act within two to three months, stipulating as domestic law that diplomatic recognition of Taiwan must be jointly negotiated by the President and Congress, and the Carter administration was forced to sign it. Senator Barry Goldwater raised a challenge over the constitutionality of the procedure for terminating the Mutual Defense Treaty, but the court declined to hear it.

The United States' open-door policy toward Chinese immigrants triggered a domestic backlash, ultimately leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, a disgraceful page in American history.