[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 193 (Wednesday, December 4, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H9251-H9254]
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                         CHINA'S 100-YEAR PLAN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 3, 2019, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. 
Yoho) for 30 minutes.
  Mr. YOHO. Madam Speaker, I appreciate this opportunity to address the 
House on a very important topic. I am doing part three in a series of 
Special Orders on China. This includes the Chinese Communist Party 
complex, which is comprised of Xi Jinping, their emperor or ruler; the 
PLA, the People's Liberation Army; and the Chinese Communist Party and 
members of its politburo, their ruling class.
  China has an amazing history that spans thousands of years. Its 
culture has stayed, for the most part, intact until the 19th century. 
There have been multiple rulers and emperors recorded in the history 
books, and, at one point, China and most of Eurasia were under the 
control of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire.
  China went from a major economic power in the 18th century to a 
nation addicted to opium and entered their century of shame.
  China is entering another century of shame, and it is too sad because 
China should be applauded for the success they have had, to go from 
where they were in the 1960s to where they are today; yet it was done 
at the expense of coercion, corruption, a squashing of human rights, 
and just not being nice neighbors in the world.
  The purpose of this Special Order is to bring awareness to Members of 
Congress and the American people and other Western-style democracies 
around the world to the true intent of China and what China is doing.
  Today, China has become the second largest economy in the world, and 
they will soon eclipse the United States of America. In order to 
understand where China is going, one needs to know where modern-day 
China started.
  Mao Zedong, in 1949, was a Communist Army fighter, and he became the 
chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and set out a 100-year plan. He 
had a vision for China. Unfortunately, their vision was to be the ruler 
of the modern world.
  That 100 years is 2049. They are 70 years into that plan, and they 
have worked it very astutely; and, like I said, they should be 
applauded. Yet it was done at the expense of other countries.
  As we know today, in the 21st century, with an over $300 billion 
trade deficit with the United States of America, that China has gained 
a lot of their gains in technology, in science, and in economics by the 
theft of intellectual property.

  Just the other day, my son was trying to download a movie. It was a 
brand-new movie. It had all Chinese captions in it, and it was a 
pirated movie that is brand new. And China has already--people from 
China have already black-marketed it.
  What they have done is they have become so astute at the black market 
and stealing intellectual property that it has cost this country, 
alone, over $600 billion, annually.
  We have had workshops up here, through the Department of Homeland 
Security, where they show bearings from different companies that are 
American companies that have gone to China, where China has copied the 
product identically. It is not the same quality, but it looks 
identical. They copied the product name, the logo, the packaging, and 
they are selling it cheaper than the manufacturers can produce it here.
  So what they are doing is they are ruining an American manufacturer. 
They are selling their cheap products here that break down, and it 
ruins the reputation of that company, and they eventually go out.
  I can't tell you how many times I have had people come into our 
office, and I had the privilege of being the chairman of the Asia, the 
Pacific, and Nonproliferation Subcommittee last Congress. We had 
businesses come from all over the world. A lot of them have gone to 
China, and they tell us: Our game plan in China is to go there and to 
plan on making our profits in 5 years and get out because, by then, the 
Chinese businesspeople and the Chinese Government have copied our 
products and we are competing against our own product.
  This is something that we have created an initiative in our office, 
and we hope it becomes a foreign policy, and it is Manufacture the ABC 
model. That is, Manufacture Anywhere But China. Because, again, China--
when you hear what I have to say here, China is taking that money to 
take over the world as far as militarily and economically.
  We are going through a major tectonic shift in world power we haven't 
seen since World War II. This is something that we have heard from our 
generals, we have heard from our business people, and it is happening 
right in front of us.
  And yet every time we buy something from China, it is benefiting the 
Chinese Communist Government.
  There is a real clear distinction that I want to make, or definition: 
There is not a separation between a Chinese business and the Communist 
Party; it is all one and the same. Members of the Chinese Communist 
Party have to be--by mandate, have to be--on their board of directors.
  When we have an American company that goes over there, they have to 
have members of the Chinese Communist Party embedded on their board. 
When we have an American company that goes over there, we have to give 
up--our companies give up about 51 percent of our companies so that the 
Chinese Government has the controlling interest.
  In addition, they have to give up intellectual property to have the 
right. It boggles my mind that an American

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company will give up intellectual property.
  I ask them: Why are you willing to do this?
  They say: Well, they have got such a huge market. They have got 1.3 
billion people.
  I just want to shake them by the shoulders and say: Don't you 
understand that they are taking your information, they are taking your 
intellectual property, and they are competing with it and using it 
against you? But, more importantly, don't focus on the 1.3 billion 
people in China. Look at the rest of the world, because there are 6.4 
billion people outside of China. That is where your market is, and that 
is where I would encourage you to manufacture, anywhere but China, so 
that we are not empowering that nation.
  They have a philosophy that states there cannot be two suns in the 
sky at the same time, implying one must be removed. This has been 
repeated over and over again in the last 100 years. They are 70 years 
into their 100-year plan.
  Xi Jinping, their leader, has an initiative called Made in China 
2025, where all things produced and consumed around the globe come from 
China, and they have done a great job.
  I wish we could applaud their success, but not when it comes at the 
expense of us or other countries around the world.
  To kind of lay out, again, where China is going, Xi Jinping stated in 
2017 that the era of China has arrived. No longer will China be made to 
swallow its interests around the world. It is time for China to take 
the world's center stage.
  Again, it is a reference that there cannot be two major competing 
powers in the world at the same time. One has to be removed. And Xi 
Jinping says this very succinctly in 2017.
  So let's look at the facts. Let's look at what China has done to 
Tibet.
  You know, Tibet was a very peaceful culture. It still is for the 
people who are still around. But the Chinese Government, under Deng 
Xiaoping, infiltrated the Tibetan region with Han Chinese, which are 
the predominant Chinese sect or personality or sector of China, and 
they have overruled the Tibetan area and driven the Tibetans out.
  Not only that, they have addicted a lot of the Tibetan monks to 
heroin, and so they are repeating what happened in the heroin wars of 
China.
  In the South China Sea, China has encroached on sovereign nations 
around the area. They have got these fictitious nine-dash lines that 
they adhere to that are their historical sailing routes from ancient 
times. They claim all that area; since they sailed it in the past, it 
is theirs.
  It is a ridiculous notion. In fact, the Philippines sued them at the 
Court of Arbitration in The Hague. China lost the lawsuit, but they 
ignored the ruling, and so they took over islands.
  They have made islands. They have damaged the coral reefs in that 
area where they have made islands--or land masses, because I refuse to 
call them islands since that gives credibility--and then they have 
militarized them.

  When Xi Jinping was here in 2015 with President Obama, he lied to our 
President and the people around the world and said that he had no 
intention of militarizing those land masses that they dredged from the 
bottom of the ocean. Yet, today, they are militarized, and they have 
done this over and over again.
  Again, they are making deepwater ports in areas that are encroaching 
and getting closer to the United States mainland. And they are doing 
this, again, to reinforce their goal of being the sole superpower in 
the world. Why else would they be investing all this money in the five 
brand-new aircraft carriers that are going to be the state of the art?
  This is something we see over and over again.
  And they have encroached on the sovereignty of nations, of the ASEAN 
nations--the Philippines is part of that, Vietnam, Brunei--to the point 
where they are encroaching on their exclusive economic zones and 
forcing these countries to yield up their natural resources so that 
China can benefit from them.
  China has developed what we call the Belt Road Initiative, or the One 
Belt, One Road we hear a lot about. I have heard it referred to as the 
One Belt, One Road, and it goes one way; and it goes to enhance China, 
not the countries where they do economic development.
  We have seen so many examples around the world where China has taken 
development money to build infrastructure projects, where they give out 
bad loans.
  It kind of reminds me of the robber barons of the 1800s in this 
country, where they go in and give out these high-interest loans with 
bad terms. The country can't pay it back. They are a poorer country. 
And then China winds up taking over strategic land masses.
  Probably the best poster child example of that is what happened in 
Sri Lanka, where they went in there. They lent them money. Sri Lanka 
couldn't pay it back. China foreclosed on that loan, took over their 
deepwater seaports.
  And again, this is their strategy, to take over deepwater seaports so 
that they can control the shipping lanes.
  And then they took over 15,000 acres of land in addition to that for 
99 years, to the point where the Sri Lankans have got to go back and 
renegotiate this deal.

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  We are seeing them do this in South America. We are seeing them do 
this in Africa, in Central America, and it is going all over the world. 
And, again, you have to go back to what the original intent is: To be 
the sole superpower in the world.
  China has pushed very strategically to corner the markets on rare 
Earth metals. Virtually today, the United States of America and other 
countries--I know for the United States of America, we get 90 percent 
of our rare Earth metals directly from China. The other 10 percent come 
from countries that get it from China.
  And we have seen China use the rare Earth metals market demand that 
they have to coerce nations like Japan to allow them to go into 
Japanese territorial waters to fish, and Japan had no other choice. 
They have threatened to do that to the United States of America. This 
is something that is not acceptable for our national security.
  I sit on the agricultural committee, too, and what I found out is 
that China controls 100 percent of the vitamins and minerals that go 
into our livestock feed. This, again, is a national security interest.
  China today controls 85 to 90 percent of what we call the APIs, that 
is the active pharmaceutical ingredients that go into all of our 
medicines around the world. And the bad thing about that is that they 
have the controlling interest of the pharmaceutical ingredients, the 
active portion of that, which is bad enough, but what they do is they 
have changed the formulation of the original drugmaker and manufacturer 
by using different reagents and solvents, so it changes the active 
ingredients.
  So what we have found out is that the product is tainted, it is not 
as effective. And we found cases where there is a high risk of cancer 
from using these products. And, unfortunately, some of these products 
are anti-cancer drugs that are, in turn, causing cancer to the rate of 
one in 6,000.
  Again, this is something that we need to understand: Every time we 
buy a product and it comes from China, we are reinforcing this, and we 
are growing their economy stronger and their military stronger.
  We can look at their other economic threats that they have done. Back 
in 2013 and 2014 South Korea was changing presidents. South Korea was 
being taunted by North Korea, and they continually have been, about 
being attacked. And so they took one of our THAAD systems, which is a 
terminal high altitude area defense mechanism, and China retaliated, 
not against North Korea that was making all the threatening gestures, 
but they retaliated against South Korea. And the reason they do this is 
because South Korea is a western-style democracy, which would threaten 
China.
  So the way they retaliated against South Korea is they went after 
their largest department chain called Lotte Department Stores. They 
virtually shut them down in mainland China. They went after Hyundai. 
Hyundai sales dropped precipitously. They revoked tourism visas going 
to South Korea. So, instead of going after North Korea for these 
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they go after South Korea for their own defense. And then the agreement 
we had after the Korean conflict was that we would provide them 
defensive mechanisms.
  And so, we see the same thing going on in Hong Kong today. The thing 
I have learned, and the thing that is very evident is, China cannot 
exist around a western-style democracy where freedom of speech, freedom 
of religion, freedom of thought is expressed, because in China the 
highest power in the Chinese Communist Party is the party. And it is 
their doctrine. So you can't have people that are free thinking, and it 
is very self-evident when you see what is going on in Hong Kong today.
  We are approaching 7 months of protests in Hong Kong, where you have 
over 25 percent of the population protesting because what China did is 
through their chief executive officer, Carrie Lam--who is a puppet of 
Beijing--she introduced an extradition bill.
  And when Hong Kong was turned over from Great Britain back to China 
in 1997, there was a 50-year period of time where Hong Kong was 
supposed to be a self-ruled autonomous region with an independent 
judiciary system.
  Twenty-two years into it, Xi Jinping, the emperor of China, has said 
that as far as he is concerned that deal is null and void. And so they 
went ahead and put in this extradition bill, which breaks their 
judicial system, and it caused the protests.
  And we have seen this over and over again, the way China did this 
with the Tibetans. They did it in Tiananmen Square, where they had a 
mass massacre of people that were standing up for democracy and freedom 
back in the 1980s. And here we are, we are seeing it happen again, and 
China is not backing off on the suppression of human rights.
  We got visited by the students of Hong Kong that were in the 
protests. They came to our office. These are true freedom fighters in 
the modern 21st century. These students were standing up, and these 
were the ones that were burning the Chinese flag, and they were the 
ones waving the American flag because of what that represents around 
the world.
  And our American flag is bigger than a Presidency, it is bigger than 
a Republican party or a Democratic party. It is an ideal that people 
around the world look at as a model of what they want to accomplish. 
And it is great to know that this body passed the Hong Kong Democracy 
Act this week, and it is a strong signal to put sanctions on the people 
of China who have said to the people of Hong Kong that no form of 
punishment can be too strict or strong for the protestors, that they 
must be brought into line.
  And then we can look at the Xinjiang province where it is mostly a 
Chinese Muslim province. There is approximately 10 million Uighurs that 
live in that area. The Uighurs are Chinese Muslims. They come from 
different areas, Kyrgyzstan and all that region of western China. And 
they practice their Muslim faith. But China, again, can't be threatened 
by anything that is outside the Chinese Communist Party doctrine.
  And so what they have done is they have built modern day 
concentration camps where over a million, the estimates are one to two 
million, Uighurs are placed into these reeducation camps. And I have 
met with the students and the children of people that have been 
interned in these camps, and they were CPAs, their parents, they were 
doctors, they were pharmacists, they were lawyers, and they were 
professional people. But the Chinese Government says these people 
needed to be retrained so that they could have adequate jobs to provide 
for their families.
  I remember the words of Dwight Eisenhower when he went into Nazi 
Germany and he saw the concentration camps, and he said, ``Never 
again.'' And if we, as a civil society of free-thinking people around 
the world, are allowing this to happen, shame on us. And we are 
allowing this to happen, again, every time we buy a product that is 
made in China. The Uighurs that go to these reeducation camps, they are 
using them as slave labor. It is well documented.
  The other thing I found interesting in our Foreign Affairs Committee 
is we had a hearing on this, and they were telling us about the 
crematoriums they have. Now, crematoriums are obviously there to 
cremate people after they are dead.
  But my question is: Why is it in their advertisement, they are asking 
for armed people that are well at fighting to guard these crematoriums? 
If you are going to cremate dead people, why do you need armed guards 
at the crematoriums? Unless they are not dead?
  And, again, we have seen this happen in history. And this is going on 
today. And it is something that the American people need to wake up to. 
I know Members of this body are waking up to it. But it is people 
around the world that need to wake up to this and shun China until 
China changes their behavior. We can't make them do it, but we can 
change our habits and buy elsewhere and have people produce products 
everywhere else.
  We were proud to pass in the last Congress the BUILD Act, which 
develops the United States International Development Finance 
Corporation. This is something that we can offer to countries as a way 
to do development finance in other countries. We can partner up with 
countries that have a development finance corporation like Japan, the 
U.K., Australia, Great Britain, and we can do major infrastructure 
projects.
  The difference between us doing that and China is we are going to do 
it for the development and the betterment of that country, 
understanding that if we help them build an economic base through 
infrastructure, they will develop an economy, and through that economy 
we will develop more trade and so then that country benefits, not 
China.
  We have seen China go into Cambodia, bring in Chinese workers, 
Chinese material, build casinos. They build Chinese restaurants, 
Chinese hotels that are run, controlled, and worked by Chinese 
nationals, not the people of Cambodia. So there again, it is an example 
of how China comes in and does these projects for the benefit of China, 
not for the benefit of the local economy.
  I was down in South America, and I was talking to one of the Members 
of Congress down there whose brother happened to be a mayor of one of 
the small towns. The Chinese embassy had given that mayor two fire 
trucks. Now, the Congressman was going to have a meeting with the 
country of Taiwan, and the Chinese embassy found out about it. And they 
didn't call the Congressman in Chile, they called the mayor, his 
brother, and said, If your brother takes that meeting with Taiwan, you 
will not get any more favors from us. And this is just one of their 
ways of underhandedness and coercion that they do to force people to do 
what they want.
  In China today they have the largest collection of CCT cameras, which 
are the closed-circuit television cameras that monitor their citizens. 
So today in China they have what they call the good citizen score. They 
monitor people, and if you don't do something properly, like you 
jaywalk or you went through a red light or you threw something on the 
ground, it is scored. You don't know what your score is, but you will 
find out if you want to go to a restaurant, they may prevent you from 
going in there. If you want to travel, they will prevent you from 
traveling. But you won't find out until you show up. And this is a way 
to control their people because, again, the thing they fear most is 
free thought.
  In China what we do know is Xi Jinping came from a family that was an 
elite family. His father was one of the leaders of the Communist Party. 
But he wanted Xi Jinping to understand the rural life, so in his 
teenage years they sent him out to a rural area where he had to live in 
a cage and dwell in a cage in a village. He did that, so today he can 
relate to people that are out in the rural areas.
  When he became powerful and moved up in the political process, and 
this is around 2012, 2013, what he did is he started to eliminate 
anybody that was a potential threat to him. So they either did forced 
retirement, and in the five biggest cities in China today the people 
that were ruling, those mayors either had forced retirement or they 
disappeared, or they are in prison. He has replaced them with pretty 
much henchmen of his that will follow his orders. They are doing this 
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country. They are doing this in Hong Kong. They are doing it in Tibet. 
And they are going to do it in other parts of the world. We have seen 
them doing this with the Uighurs in the Xinjiang province.
  My hope today is that people will hear this. And this message will 
get out to where when people buy a product, they have a choice. It 
might be a little bit cheaper, but every time you buy that product, you 
are buying a product that is feeding an economic engine and a military 
whose sole purpose is to be the dominant power in the world and to make 
us secondary or worse.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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