Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) led a group of 10 Republican senators in calling on the Biden administration to act more quickly to finalize a list of “emerging and foundational technologies” that are key to national security and would be subject to stricter export controls as a guardrail against their acquisition and misuse by China for military and intelligence purposes. In a Tuesday letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (pdf), the senators urged the department to “expeditiously” identify the essential technologies, as mandated years ago by the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) (pdf). “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is executing a strategy of ‘Military-Civil Fusion’ (MCF), in which notionally ‘private’ Chinese companies acquire cutting-edge technology overseas in part to help the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) develop and field advanced military capabilities,” the senators wrote, adding that, in practice, the strategy “transforms the technology sector of the Chinese economy into a military-driven ecosystem, …