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Senate Banking Chairman and presidential candidate Tim Scott, RS.C., outlined key elements of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that directly target China in an effort to position “America for the long haul” against communist powers.
The leading voice of Congress on the banking sector has fought for the provisions surrounding China to be included in the annual defense spending bill, Scott told Fox News Digital during an exclusive interview that it is important that American money “does not support our enemies” and that the US must dominate in artificial intelligence and semiconductor technology.
“I think it’s very important for us to realize that we still have the high ground and maintaining the high ground means having an aggressive posture against China,” Scott told Fox News Digital.
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Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott highlighted the China-focused measures in the NDAA — including sanctions, chips, AI, investment restrictions, and national security reviews — as a strategy to “position America for the long term against China.” (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images/iStock/Getty Images)
“That means everything from the way we review sanctions, to the way we look at them [the] chip chat you saw a few days ago, [and] artificial intelligence is part of that conversation as well,” Scott added.
The NDAA passed the House in early September and is now headed to President Donald Trump’s desk after the bill passed the Senate on Wednesday.
Included in the NDAA are three important pieces of legislation that Senator Scott mentioned.
The Protect Our Bases Act, which updates the Committee on Foreign Investment Procedures by requiring regular updates to federal records of critical sites and adds annual reporting requirements. The bill was introduced following the Chinese company’s attempted 2022 land purchase near the Grand Forks Air Force Base, highlighting limitations in the existing review process.
Sen. Tim Scott, RS.C., is the senior banking leader in the Senate. (Roberto SchmidtAFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The NDDA also includes an expansion of the Defense Production Act (DPA), first enacted in 1950, which allows the US to expand industrial capacity during national emergencies. Scott pushed language in the defense bill that creates core jobs in defense production and strengthens domestic supply chains.
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The FIGHT China Act, which was put together with bipartisan support, creates an outbound investment screening process that allows the Treasury Department to restrict or require notification of certain US investments in critical technologies in the People’s Republic of China.
The annual defense spending bill is now headed to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law. (Alex Flynn/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
The bill also adds reporting requirements and targeted exemptions to increase transparency while limiting transactions deemed to pose a significant threat to US national security.
Three pieces of legislation to be included in the annual defense bill were proposed by Scott, when the Senate Banking Chairman told Fox News Digital that it was important to move forward with China, which he described as a communist country that has been thinking “for generations, if not centuries.” He said economic instruments are the most effective compared to the PRC.
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“Positioning America for the long term against China is very important,” Scott explained. “But China, they don’t think in election cycles, they think in generations, if not centuries.”
“I think it’s the most effective weapon that we have, and the more we use our economic weapons, the better off we are as a nation, frankly, as a world,” Scott said.
