{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-urge-president-biden-to-take-action-against-huawei-aligned-semiconductor-plant", "Cotton, Colleagues Urge President Biden to Take Action Against Huawei-Aligned Semiconductor Plant", "2022-10-14", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Caroline Tabler orJames Arnold (202) 224-2353\n\nOctober 14, 2022\n\nCotton, Colleagues Urge President Biden to Take Action Against Huawei-Aligned Semiconductor Plant\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Marco Rubio (R-Florida), sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on the administration to take immediate action to prevent the Chinese technology company Huawei from building the Pengxinwei IC Manufacturing Company (PXW) semiconductor plant. The letter details how the plant would severely undermine the U.S. strategy to counter Huawei, an arm of Chinese intelligence. The plant would give Huawei a guaranteed supply of advanced chips, a key element of the CCP\u2019s Military-Civil Fusion campaign. The senators also raise concerns that the administration has taken no official steps to delay the project\u2019s progress, despite knowing about the plant\u2019s construction.\n\nIn part, the senators wrote:\n\n\u201cBloomberg recently published evidence that Huawei began construction over seven months ago on a factory where PXW is expected to eventually mass produce chips as advanced as 14 nanometers and 7 nanometers. Almost all of these chips are expected to be sold to Huawei, and PXW reportedly has already ordered the advanced equipment necessary to build these chips. This would represent a dangerous leap in Chinese semiconductor manufacturing, as Chinese chipmakers have thus far only been able to produce 7-nanometer chips in limited quantities. With these new chips for its base stations, Huawei could resume its march towards 5G market dominance, and the CCP will advance its plan to control global telecommunications and extend its economic espionage and repression.\u201d\n\nFull text of the letter may be found here and below.\n\nOctober 13, 2022\n\nPresident Joseph R. Biden\n\nThe White House\n\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\n\nWashington, D.C. 20500\n\nDear President Biden,\n\nWe call on the administration to take immediate action to halt Huawei\u2019s attempt to build the Pengxinwei IC Manufacturing Company (PXW) semiconductor foundry. This Huawei-aligned foundry is designed to fatally undermine the U.S. strategy to counter the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) bid to dominate global 5G markets and strengthen its intelligence and repression apparatus.\n\nBloomberg recently published evidence that Huawei began construction over seven months ago on a factory where PXW is expected to eventually mass produce chips as advanced as 14 nanometers and 7 nanometers. Almost all of these chips are expected to be sold to Huawei, and PXW reportedly has already ordered the advanced equipment necessary to build these chips. This would represent a dangerous leap in Chinese semiconductor manufacturing, as Chinese chipmakers have thus far only been able to produce 7-nanometer chips in limited quantities. With these new chips for its base stations, Huawei could resume its march towards 5G market dominance, and the CCP will advance its plan to control global telecommunications and extend its economic espionage and repression.\n\nWe are deeply concerned that, despite the obvious threat that PXW poses, your administration has taken no official steps to delay the project\u2019s progress, despite being aware of the project for some time. The Department of Commerce\u2019s apparent inaction is a dereliction of duty. Despite PXW\u2019s clear connection with Huawei, Commerce has not added PXW to its Bureau of Industry and Security\u2019s (BIS) Entity List or its list of Huawei subsidiaries under the Foreign Direct Product Rule. As far as we can tell, Commerce has not sent a single \u201cinformed\u201d letter to any entities potentially working with PXW, ordering them to halt all shipments to and transactions with the factory.\n\nExport controls are among our nation\u2019s foremost tools to win the economic long war with China. It defies logic that, at the same time as your administration worked on a package of export controls on Chinese semiconductors, it has not used all the tools at its disposal to end PXW\u2019s development. Your administration should blacklist PXW immediately, unless you wish to preside over the unravelling of the U.S. campaign against Huawei and the CCP\u2019s bid for global 5G dominance.\n\nThank you for your prompt attention to this matter. I look forward to receiving your response.\n\nSincerely,\n\n_________________________ _________________________\n\nTom Cotton Bill Hagerty\n\nUnited States Senator United States Senator\n\n_________________________ _________________________\n\nMarsha Blackburn Ted Cruz\n\nUnited States Senator United States Senator\n\n_________________________\n\nMarco Rubio\n\nUnited States Senator\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:20:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-urge-president-biden-to-take-action-against-huawei-aligned-semiconductor-plant"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7185660544782877, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}