Why It Matters

The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is set to examine one of the most direct economic threats facing American consumers: a China-linked criminal network that, according to the committee's own investigation, drains at least $10 billion from Americans every year. The House Select Committee Strategic Competition hearing, scheduled for June 25, is about fraud, human trafficking, and money laundering operating through scam centers in Southeast Asia with ties back to Beijing.

The Big Picture

Chairman John Moolenaar and Ranking Member Ro Khanna jointly released an investigation exposing a China-linked scam center network responsible for defrauding Americans of at least $10 billion annually. The committee's report, titled "Crime, Corruption, and Power: CCP-Linked Transnational Crime and the Rise of a Distributed Threat to U.S. Security," found that scam centers concentrated in Southeast Asia (particularly in Cambodia and Burma) form a criminal ecosystem linking cyber fraud, human trafficking, and money laundering. The network also fuels broader illicit finance, according to the committee's investigation.

The Witnesses

Two experts are slated to testify at the June 25 House Select Committee Strategic Competition hearing. Jacob Sims, a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Center at Harvard University, and Jason Tower, a Senior Expert at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, are both identified as witnesses.

The Bottom Line

The June 25 hearing is part of a concentrated stretch of China competition hearing activity on Capitol Hill. The committee has a separate hearing scheduled for June 26, 2026, titled "From High Tech to Heavy Steel: Combatting the PRC's Strategy to Dominate Semiconductors, Shipbuilding, and Drones," signaling a sustained congressional push on U.S.-China strategic competition across multiple economic and security fronts.

The committee's membership spans both parties, including Seth Moulton, André Carson, Ritchie Torres, Ashley Hinson, Rob Wittman, and others, reflecting the bipartisan character that has defined the panel's work since its formation in the 119th Congress.

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