Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have released a new investigative report designating DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence platform, as a significant threat to U.S. national security.

“DeepSeek is a deeply troubling reflection of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader strategy to undermine U.S. national security and technological leadership,” said Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi. “That’s why our investigations into DeepSeek and Nvidia are a critical reminder that export controls matter—but we can’t take our foot off the gas. Every day we fail to close loopholes and invest in U.S. innovation is another day the CCP gains ground in its race to outpace and outmaneuver us.”

The report, titled “DeepSeek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool for Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions,” presents findings that DeepSeek covertly transfers American user data to the CCP, manipulates information to align with party propaganda, and was likely trained on unlawfully sourced U.S. AI models, according to a statement from Krishnamoorthi’s office. 

Key findings include:

• Foreign Control: DeepSeek is owned and operated by a company with direct links to the CCP, led by Lian Wenfang and ideologically aligned with “Xi Jinping Thought.”
• American User Data at Risk: The platform reportedly transmits U.S. user data via unsecured networks to China, functioning as a high-value open-source intelligence tool for the CCP.
• Surveillance Ties: DeepSeek’s infrastructure is connected to Chinese state-affiliated firms such as ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent, and China Mobile—companies with known histories of censorship, surveillance, and data harvesting.
• Illicit Use of U.S. Technology: The report cites that DeepSeek was developed using more than 60,000 Nvidia chips, some of which may have been procured in violation of U.S. export restrictions.

In light of these revelations, the Select Committee has issued a formal letter to Nvidia, requesting details about chip sales to China and Southeast Asia. The inquiry seeks to determine whether and how Nvidia’s technology came to power DeepSeek’s AI systems despite active export controls.

The Committee affirmed it will continue its investigation into how American innovation is being exploited by the Chinese Communist Party.

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