CPA believes that foreign adversaries like China should not be able to exploit U.S. capital markets and tens of millions of unwitting American investors in order to fund activities that pose a threat to U.S economic and national security.
In order to protect retail investors and pensioners, CPA believes that companies should only be able to access U.S. capital markets if they are in compliance with all U.S. laws for transparency and accountability. Additionally, any company, including its subsidiaries, sanctioned by the U.S. government should be prohibited from accessing our markets, and no American investor — retail or institutional — should be able to invest in any financial product of a sanctioned company, including securities and other investment products like Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
U.S. investors are inadvertently funding Chinese companies involved in activities contrary to the national security, economic security, and human rights interests of the United States. For decades, Wall Street has profited by helping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fund its companies via U.S. capital markets, exploiting tens of millions of unwitting American investors in the process. Currently, there are Chinese companies integrated into U.S. capital markets that actively assist the CCP and its campaign of evil, including Beijing’s genocide and human rights abuses against the Uyghurs and companies helping to strengthen and modernize the People’s Liberation Army, Navy, and Air Force.
CPA advocates for the inclusion of more companies on existing sanctions lists, as well as creating new sanctions to protect American investors from these harmful companies that not only pose material risk to the return on investment, but also threats to American security. Via legislative, regulatory, and executive branch tools, CPA advocates for a U.S. government strategy that cuts off funding to the CCP and protects hard-earned investment capital.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) each have expressed their desire to move forward this Congress with a bill to prohibit U.S. capital, economic incentives, and trade preferences from benefitting China and other adversarial nations. Importantly, this legislative package would also seek to build American productive capacity to eliminate dependence on those nations, especially in industries that are critical to U.S. economic and national security. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) endorses the following legislation for inclusion in any such package.
Days off the Trump-Xi meeting, four Members of Congress are currently pushing a more structural and long-term China-risk-reduction agenda than the Trump administration is pursuing through the bilateral relationship.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the United States and China are considering lowering tariffs on “noncritical” items — the consumer goods that fill American shopping carts — as part of the package being assembled around this week’s Trump-Xi summit.
New CPA article documents a decade of failed tariff policy concessions to accommodate Canada and Mexico’s promised “Fortress North America.”
The collapse of the U.S.-Canada trade deal is providing a rare glimpse into the secret world of international trade negotiations. Beyond just the insider view, we are being given hope that the mirage of “Fortress North America” can be put to rest.
![Mexico’s top trade diplomat, Marcelo Ebrard, was in Washington for several days last week [from Aug. 24 to Aug. 26] but quietly left empty handed on Wednesday.](https://prosperousamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/claudia-sheinbaum.jpg)
Mexico’s top trade diplomat, Marcelo Ebrard, was in Washington for several days last week [from Aug. 24 to Aug. 26] but quietly left empty handed on Wednesday.
President Trump was right to strengthen the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, and the breakdown of these negotiations should put an end to proposals to weaken them.
