Countering Chinese Espionage Reporting Act

The Countering Chinese Espionage Reporting Act would require the Attorney General to prepare and publicly release, within 90 days of enactment and annually for seven years, a comprehensive report on Department of Justice activities aimed at countering national security threats and espionage linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The report would describe DOJ activities and operations countering CCP threats (including IP theft and research theft, and threats from non-traditional collectors such as researchers in labs, universities, and defense industrial base facilities), provide an accounting of DOJ resources devoted to these programs and how effective they are, and lay out the measures used to protect civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy of U.S. persons in carrying out these activities. The report must be unclassified but may include a classified annex and should be prepared in consultation with key intelligence and homeland security officials (DNI, DHS, DOD, and others) and publicly posted on the DOJ website for transparency.