Wisconsin Republicans this week rolled out a sweeping, no-nonsense legislative package designed to choke off every avenue of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in our state. The centerpiece: a complete ban on forced-organ-harvesting insurance coverage—stopping Wisconsin taxpayers from subsidizing a genocide that claims up to 50,000 victims in China each year.
Senator Patrick Testin put it bluntly: “The CCP is embedding itself in every sector—higher education, state contracts, critical infrastructure—to extend its tentacles here at home. We’re shutting the door on that subversion.”
Under the plan, the University of Wisconsin system may no longer enter into any collaboration, research or academic partnership with universities based in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or Qatar. Only a direct, national-security waiver from a federal agency could override the prohibition.
State agencies face a matching firewall. No contracts with any company headquartered in or controlled by the Chinese government or the CCP. Period. That means no more telecom deals that rely on spyware-laden equipment from foreign adversaries.
A separate measure bars all “critical telecommunications infrastructure” purchases if the gear comes from a CCP-linked manufacturer. Wisconsin will not become a backdoor for digital surveillance or sabotage.
Representative Clint Moses drove home the organ-harvesting ban: “We will not fund insurance coverage or medical assistance for transplants sourced from forced organ removal. It’s not charity. It’s complicity in a crime against humanity.”
Genetic privacy gets its own shield. The GOP package forbids the use of foreign-adversary genetic software in our hospitals and research labs, and it prohibits storage of any human genome data on servers inside enemy states. Wisconsin’s most sensitive medical data will stay under American control.
A dedicated transnational-repression bill arms law enforcement with stronger tools to prosecute CCP-linked harassment of Wisconsin families, journalists and dissidents abroad. The message: harass one of us—face the full weight of our courts.
Senator Cory Tomczyk, Representative Daniel Knodl and Representative Alex Dallman join Testin and Moses as prime sponsors. Together, they guarantee Wisconsin will lead the nation in insulating itself from a hostile foreign power.
Michael Lucci of State Armor praised the package as “the gold standard for states standing up to China.” He added: “When federal inaction is the norm, states must act decisively. Wisconsin is sending a resounding message: we will not bow to totalitarian influence.”
This is not a warning shot. It is a statement of American resolve. If these bills become law, Wisconsin will be the blueprint for every state determined to put politics aside and defend our institutions from an aggressive, expansionist regime.
