EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ADDRESSING THE THREAT FROM SECURITIES INVESTMENTS THAT

FINANCE COMMUNIST CHINESE MILITARY COMPANIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is increasingly exploiting United States capital to resource and to enable the development and modernization of its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses, which continues to allow the PRC to directly threaten the United States homeland and United States forces overseas, including by developing and deploying weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional weapons, and malicious cyber-enabled actions against the

United States and its people.

Key to the development of the PRC's military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses is the country's large, ostensibly private economy. Through the national strategy

of Military-Civil Fusion, the PRC increases the size of the

country's military-industrial complex by compelling civilian Chinese companies to support its military and intelligence activities. Those companies, though remaining ostensibly private and civilian, directly support the PRC's military, intelligence, and security apparatuses and aid in their development and modernization.

At the same time, those companies raise capital by selling

securities to United States investors that trade on public

exchanges both here and abroad, lobbying United States index

providers and funds to include these securities in market

offerings, and engaging in other acts to ensure access

to United States capital. In that way, the PRC exploits United States investors to finance the development and modernization of its military.

I therefore further find that the PRC's military-industrial complex, by directly supporting the efforts of the PRC's military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has

its source in substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. To protect the United States homeland and the American people, I hereby declare a national emergency with respect to this threat.

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2020-25459/communist-chinese-military-companies-us-efforts-to-address-threat-from-securities-investments-that

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY | 21-005

Findings of Misconduct by an Assistant United States Attorney for Sexually Inappropriate Comments to Multiple

Individuals, Inappropriate Touching of an Intern’s Breast, and Lack of Candor to the OIG

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation upon the receipt of information from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) alleging that an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) may have physically and verbally sexually harassed an Intern in the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), including deliberately running his arm across the Intern’s breast without her consent.

During the course of the investigation, the OIG found indications that the AUSA also made sexually suggestive comments to three other individuals, including another AUSA, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Forensic Analyst, and a U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Postal Inspector. In addition, the OIG found indications that the AUSA lacked candor during an OIG interview.

The OIG investigation substantiated the allegations that the AUSA engaged in sexually harassing conduct by making sexually inappropriate comments to the USAO Intern, the AUSA, the FBI Forensic Analyst, and the USPIS Postal Inspector, all in violation of federal regulations regarding sexual harassment and employee conduct, as well as in violation of DOJ policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace. The OIG further concluded that the AUSA inappropriately touched the Intern’s breast, in violation of state law. The OIG further found that the AUSA lacked candor in his OIG interview, in violation of DOJ policy.

Federal and state criminal prosecution of the AUSA was declined.

The OIG has completed its investigation and is providing this report to the EOUSA and DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility for appropriate action.

Nominations

Joseph L. Barloon, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, vice Leo Maury Gordon, retired.

Thomas L. Kirsch II, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, vice Amy Coney Barrett, elevated.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/two-nominations-sent-senate-111620/