{"id":8029,"date":"2023-11-01T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/business\/us-house-panel-seeks-ban-on-federal-purchases-of-chinese-drones\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:26:15","slug":"us-house-panel-seeks-ban-on-federal-purchases-of-chinese-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=8029","title":{"rendered":"US House panel seeks ban on federal purchases of Chinese drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Stay informed with free updates<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Simply sign up to the <!-- -->US-China relations<!-- --> myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=a4c4eaea-2409-4a53-90aa-71d066843018&amp;concept-id=403b154d-96c7-421b-b0b8-eb5fc2c3d198\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The House of Representatives\u2019 China committee will introduce a bill on Wednesday that would ban the US government from buying Chinese drones, in a bid to bolster a Senate push after past efforts were derailed by lobbying.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gallagher, the Republican head of the committee, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat, will introduce the \u201cAmerican Security Drone Act\u201d on Wednesday, the Financial Times has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The measure is the latest bipartisan effort by lawmakers on Capitol Hill to prevent Chinese technology from being used in ways that critics argue undermines US national security.<\/p>\n<p>The bill mirrors legislation in the Senate introduced by Mark Warner, the Democratic head of the intelligence committee, and Republican senator Rick Scott. The Senate included the measure in its version of the defence bill, which must be reconciled with the House version that does not include any language to ban the purchase of Chinese drones.<\/p>\n<p>While the bill does not name specific companies, it would take aim at DJI, a Chinese firm that is the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of commercial drones. The Shenzhen-based group\u2019s products are used by everyone from photographers to local police agencies across America. It would also affect Autel, another Chinese group which has 7.8 per cent of the US commercial drone market after DJI, which has a dominant 58 per cent share, according to David Benowitz at Drone Analyst.<\/p>\n<p>The China committee hopes that its bill will draw more attention to the issue, making it harder for lawmakers to oppose the broader effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist party consistently weaponises its near monopoly on the drone market against the good guys; restricting drone exports to Ukraine while Hamas uses them to perpetrate brutal terrorist attacks,\u201d Gallagher told the FT. \u201cThis bill would prohibit the federal government from using American taxpayer dollars to purchase\u00a0this equipment from countries like China, supporting the PRC\u2019s malign behaviour and posing a serious national security threat to the US and our allies. It is imperative that Congress pass this bipartisan bill to protect US interests and our national security supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has in previous years included language on Chinese drones in the annual must-pass defence bill, but those efforts have failed to make it into the final legislation passed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>DJI said it opposed legislation that \u201climits market choice or bans technology based on country of origin\u201d.\u00a0Adam Welsh, DJI\u2019s head of global policy, said limiting access to its drones would impose costs in terms of safety and would also affect small firms that use its drones and related software.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh rejected suggestions that DJI\u2019s products posed a security risk, saying they had been repeatedly tested by government agencies: \u201cDJI products can be flown without even connecting to the internet \u2014 making them as secure as using an air-gapped computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DJI\u2019s efforts to oppose the legislation have in the past been helped by US police agencies who have argued that there are no comparable cost-effective drones available domestically.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which was cosigned by Virginia Republican Rob Wittman and Connecticut Democrat Joe Courtney, would also bar local and state governments from purchasing Chinese drones with federal grants.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Robbins, head of advocacy for the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, said lawmakers were more aware of the security threat from Chinese drones, particularly after they appeared on the battlefield in Ukraine. He said the technological gap between DJI drones and the US had narrowed but American firms were at a disadvantage since their Chinese rivals were subsidised by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was true at one time that DJI had a significant technological advantage, and they pushed that narrative to their own benefit,\u201d said Robbins. \u201cBut it is a very convenient narrative that is no longer true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eric Sayers, an Asia security expert, said it was \u201cencouraging\u201d that there might be congressional action this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, it has taken many long years to get to this point, and the final bill will probably have a range of waivers for federal agencies to continue to use People\u2019s Republic of China drones,\u201d said Sayers, managing director at the consultancy Beacon Global Strategies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lesson here is we must identify and prevent critical dependencies on the PRC before they emerge, burrow in our economy, and become politically and financially expensive to reverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Trump administration, the commerce department put DJI on the \u201centity list\u201d, barring the sale of US technology to the group without a licence. The Biden administration later placed DJI on a Treasury department investment blacklist over concerns about alleged support for the surveillance of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese embassy said the US should \u201cabandon the cold war mentality and zero-sum game concept, stop generalising the concept of national security, stop hyping up the \u2018China threat\u2019 theory, and stop its unwarranted suppression of Chinese companies\u201d. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a4c4eaea-2409-4a53-90aa-71d066843018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest &#8212; delivered directly to your inbox. 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