USChina Competition Underscores House-Approved NDAA

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