AGENDA
Hearing on "Taking a Bigger Byte: China’s Expanding Strategy for Data Dominance"
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 430, and Webex
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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Leland Miller and Commissioner Chris Slevin
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
9:40 AM – 11:05 AM: Panel I: Drivers and Objectives of China’s Data Acquisition Strategy
- Nigel Cory, Director, Crowell Global Advisors [Testimony]
- Joseph Lin, Co-Founder and CEO, Twenty [Testimony]
- Andrew Lohn, Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University [Testimony]
11:05 AM – 11:15 AM: Break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Panel II: China’s Data Acquisition in Practice — Vectors, Targets, and Implications for the United States
- Gregory Falco, Assistant Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University [Testimony]
- Chris Miller, Professor, The Fletcher School at Tufts University [Testimony]
- Diane Staheli, Senior Staff Member, Cyber Security and Information Services Division, MIT Lincoln Laboratory [Testimony]
- Edward You, Founder, EHY Consulting LLC and Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent [Testimony]
12:45 PM – 12:50 PM: Closing Remarks
12:50 PM: Adjourn
Statement for the Record
- Yves Moreau, Full Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium [Statement]