DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — ‘Countering CCP Drones Act’ would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate

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DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — ‘Countering CCP Drones Act’ would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate

The ******* States House of Representatives passed a ban on the future ***** of DJI drones in the U.S. on Friday, making the DJI ban more likely than not. The “Countering CCP Drones Act” is part of the ******* States’ 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (FY25 NDAA), a major piece of yearly legislation allotting defense spending for the coming year.

Drone maker DJI is based in China and controls over 70% of the world’s drone market share, a combination that threatens U.S. lawmakers. As we first reported in April, 6% of DJI stock ***** in the hands of ******** state-owned businesses, which has led to fears of ******** government backdoors, national security risks, and other fears of ******** surveillance using the company’s drones. And of course, there ***** the more real concern for U.S. lawmakers that DJI’s success would continue to strengthen the ******** economy.

Elise Stefanik, the *********** representative from New York who sponsors the anti-DJI legislation, said of the drones, “DJI presents an unacceptable national security risk, and it is past time that drones made by ********** China are removed from America.” Of course, this unacceptable risk has not seemed to faze the U.S. military and police complex, which

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in law enforcement. DJI products have also been used in the Russian war against Ukraine, a use-case U.S. lawmakers ***** though

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all military use of its drones. 

The Countering CCP Drones Act, along with a scattering of other **** laws and culture war staples, is ******* within the folds of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA must be passed every year, though some political theater may delay its passage, and both houses of the ******* States Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate) have moved the spending bill through its early phases. The House has fully passed the bill, including the Countering CCP Drones Act, and now we wait for the Senate to pass its version, so the two can be combined and signed into law by President Biden.

The current state of legislation would not prohibit the use of already purchased DJI drones in the ******* States, only the ***** of DJI products in the U.S. Doing so would eliminate the most popular and highest-end drones used in the ******* States. The bill, while popular in Congress, still has a chance of being stopped. Concerned U.S. residents who disagree with the bill should contact their U.S. Senators and ask for the Countering CCP Drones Act to be dropped from the NDAA.

While not as direct an ******* on China as some moves associated with the U.S.-China trade war over semiconductors, the DJI ban would follow a tradition of tariffs and bans against successful ******** companies in the U.S. Most bans affect the most commercially successful companies and entities from operation in the U.S., though lawmakers claim the goal is safety rather than a trade conflict. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently argued, “What we’re focused on is only the most sensitive technology that could pose a threat to our security. We’re not focused on cutting off trade, or for that matter containing or holding back China.” 

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