States should implement policies that protect their citizens from the growing economic and security threats posed by the People’s Republic of China.  

• Avoid Funding Chinese Military Development – States should ensure their financial activities do not support the People’s Republic of China’s military mission and therefore threaten national security. The People’s Republic of China is advancing its “Military-Civil Fusion” strategy, seeking to enable the People’s Republic of China “to develop the most technologically advanced military in the world.”2 The People’s Republic of China is advancing its military aims by using research, intellectual property, technological advancements, and data collected from Chinese companies.3 Under Chinese law, Chinese companies are required to hand over all data in the company’s possession, including source code, to the Chinese government.4 States should not expend or invest resources that support Chinese military companies or companies that otherwise aid the People’s Republic of China’s military efforts.5 
• Protect Critical Infrastructure and Build Resilient Supply Chains – States should ensure that their critical infrastructure—including within the communications, energy, transportation, and water sectors—is protected from Chinese influence or control. States that source components from the People’s Republic of China for critical infrastructure risk cyber-attacks through security vulnerabilities, including back doors.6 Supply chains dependent on the People’s Republic of China can also be disrupted by trade restrictions designed to pressure the United States, or other geopolitical events. State should avoid, wherever possible, becoming dependent on supply chains that run through, or are controlled by, the People’s Republic of China. 
• Protect Farmland and Other Sensitive Sites – States should protect their critical assets, including their land, from being used to further the People’s Republic of China’s mission. Chinese companies have increasingly purchased or leased U.S. agricultural land,7 which depletes the nation’s food supply, and allows the People’s Republic of China to pre-position assets near American bases for espionage and sabotage. Land and other property located near military bases should be protected from purchase or lease by Chinese owned entities or their affiliates.  
• Combat Covert Influence – States should protect their political systems8 and universities9 from covert Chinese influence and political warfare conducted under the People’s Republic of China’s “United Front” strategy. States should promote transparency in education, engagement with government personnel, lobbying, and political funding activities that are directly or indirectly tied to the People’s Republic of China. Funding, contracts, and academic and research collaborations with the People’s Republic of China should be heavily scrutinized or rejected altogether. 
• Protect Data Security – States should protect consumers by ensuring that spyware and security vulnerabilities in PRC-based consumer electronics are disclosed or banned. In coordination with key federal regulators, including the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, states should conduct investigations to discover any abuses, enforce against fraudulent and deceptive practices, and ensure that consumers are aware of risks. 
• Halting the influx and deporting students and professors from the PRC. The PRC uses students and professors to conduct intelligence collection against various institutions in the U.S., including military and national security research, facilities and personnel; U.S. and state critical infrastructure and key assets; and state and major metropolitan governments to
  facilitate manipulation operations. The massive numbers of PRC students and professors also pose potential threats, including to our critical infrastructure and key assets, both by their
  placement in universities and colleges, and the freedom of movement that allows access to many of these assets. PRC students and professors are able to facilitate key attack vectors, such as the PRC researchers and students importing pathogens into the U.S. at the University of Michigan, and access to DoD and other national security programs at university research
  centers. All PRC students admitted to the U.S. must sign a pledge that they will not do anything that will harm American sovereignty and refusal to sign will cancel their visa and result in
  immediate deportation.
• Respect Human Rights – States should end state spending that supports the People’s Republic of China’s exploitive use of forced labor in manufacturing. The People’s Republic of China’s influence in the world’s supply chain rests in part on its systemic use of forced labor. The use of forced labor is repugnant and deplorable, violates basic human rights, constitutes unacceptable discrimination, and damages free and fair competition. 
• Protect Dissident Communities – The People’s Republic of China undermines American sovereignty by conducting illegal police operations within the U.S. along with harassment, stalking, assault, and other violent crime against American citizens and residents. The People’s Republic of China primarily targets political dissidents to prevent them from exercising the right of free speech within the United States. States should align their criminal codes to the G-7 Leaders’ Statement on Transnational Repression,10 signed onto by President Trump in June2025, by recognizing and responding to such crimes as fundamental attacks upon American sovereignty and punish them accordingly with enhanced penalties. 
• Exercise Authority – States should use all investigative, enforcement, licensing, legislative, procurement, appropriations, and other available authority to protect their citizens from the threats identified in these principles and from any additional threats the People’s Republic of China presents.