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WASHINGTON\u2014Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is taking action in the wake of the Thrift Savings Boards (TSB) refusal to reverse its decision earlier this year to invest billions of dollars saved by federal employees and members of the U.S. military in Chinese firms connected to Beijings military research and development.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts unconscionable that the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board did not reverse their short-sighted\u2014and foolish\u2014decision to transfer the retirement savings of our service members and federal employees to the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d Rubio told The Epoch Times on Nov. 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe TSBs refusal to act in the best interests of the United States will not go without consequence. I urge my colleagues to quickly pass our bipartisan and bicameral TSP Act to ensure that the board cannot force U.S. service members and federal employees to unwittingly invest in AVICs AviChina Industry & Technology, Hikvision, ZTE, or other Chinese companies that are undermining American and allied national security interests,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheres no excuse for this decision,\u201d said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who joined with Rubio on legislation to stop the TSB action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis should have been an easy call to reverse course, yet the board has decided to double down on this dangerous proposal. Its reckless to prop up companies that threaten U.S. interests and values, and its particularly egregious that this is being done with the retirement savings of federal workers, including our military and civilian workforce,\u201d Shaheen said in a Nov. 13 statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The TSB met on Oct. 28 and opted to continue as planned as a result of its decision to move its International Fund Index to the MSCI All Country World ex-U.S. Investable Market Index.<\/p>\n

That index includes multiple Chinese companies currently subject to multiple U.S. sanctions and export bans. As much $50 billion could be headed to China as a result of the TSB decision.<\/p>\n

Rubio and Shaheen are co-sponsors of the Taxpayers and Savers Protection Act of 2019<\/a>, which would bar the TSB from investing in Chinese firms.<\/p>\n

Other co-sponsors include Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).<\/p>\n

The TSB acted despite an Oct. 22 letter<\/a> from Rubio, Shaheen, and the other co-sponsors warning about the close relationship between Chinas Peoples Liberation Army and many of the major Chinese firms that would benefit from the U.S. investments.<\/p>\n

Putting TSB funds with the new index would directly benefit \u201cmilitary contractors to the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), such as the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and China Unicom, which supply military aircraft and telecommunications support to militarized artificial islands in the South China Sea,\u201d the senators told the TSB in the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also includes firms like Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, which was recently added to the U.S. Department of Commerces Entity List and produces surveillance equipment the Chinese government currently uses to oppress and detain approximately one million Uighur Muslims and other religious minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also among the firms cited by the senators was ZTE Corp., \u201cwhich was fined last year for violating U.S. sanctions law for business activity with Iran and North Korea, and which Congress has enacted a law to prohibit the Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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