Lawmakers call for action after report that U.S. tech plays key role in China’s surveillance state
By Byron Tau and Garance Burke - Associated Press - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology had played a far greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses by Beijing.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told AP he wanted to summon tech companies before Congress to address how their technology exports were used. Mr. Hawley, a longtime critic of U.S. technology companies, bemoaned Silicon Valley’s general lack of cooperation with Congress on that and similar inquiries.
“I think eventually we’re going to have to subpoena these people,” Mr. Hawley said.
In a post on the social media site X this month, Mr. Hawley vowed that “Big Tech must cut ties with the CCP — or face my committee,” referring to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Mr. Hawley sits on several Senate panels that might have jurisdiction to examine technology issues.
An AP investigation published this month revealed that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Companies named in AP’s reporting said they complied with all export control laws.
Yang Caiying, who told AP for its investigation about how her family was targeted by Chinese surveillance using American technology because of their activism in rural Jiangsu, said she was “shocked by the pivotal role that major U.S. tech companies have played” in her family’s ordeal. Yang is now collecting signatures for petitions urging Washington to bar U.S. firms from selling to Chinese police, both online and on the street.
Ms. Yang added her mother and sister were each sentenced to more than a year in prison earlier this month, but that she had no regrets about telling their story. Such reporting, she said, was necessary to expose “how miserable people’s lives can be when digital surveillance is combined with systematic human rights violations.”
“Without attention, China will sink into an endless abyss,” she said.
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