The China Lobbying Tracker catalogues lobbying registrations in the United States by entities linked to China. The searchable database is specifically designed to allow users to examine publicly available lobbying filings submitted to the U.S. Senate pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) that may be related to the People’s Republic of China.

For example, users can examine lobbying registrations of companies associated with Huawei, one of China’s largest technology champions, a company that has been repeatedly sanctioned by the United States and designated by the Pentagon as a Chinese military company. Despite this, these Huawei subsidiaries for years maintained a robust lobbying operation in Washington, DC, and registered to lobby Congress under nearly a dozen different corporate names.

Unless otherwise noted, any information on this website’s “Client,” “Lobbying Firm,” and “Lobbyist” pages reproduces verbatim the information disclosed in publicly available lobbying filings, which users can access directly through hyperlinks found on the relevant pages. Any errors or inconsistencies in this information should be attributed to the filings themselves. Nothing on this website is intended to allege any malign or unlawful conduct on the part of any person or entity.

This site was last updated March 9, 2026.

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Methodology

The information reproduced on this website was assembled from filings from the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure Act API (Application Programming Interface).

Staff compiled information from registrations that list a client or registrant with a Chinese, Hong Kong, or Macau address, or disclose a Chinese, Hong Kong, or Macau entity under the “Foreign Entities” section.

Even if a client itself is not a foreign entity, a client must still disclose whether any foreign entity holds at least 20 percent equitable ownership in the client or related organization; directly or indirectly plans, supervises, controls, directs, finances, or subsidizes activities of the client or related organization; or is an affiliate of the client or related organization and has a direct interest in the outcome of any lobbying activity.

In select cases, staff have identified further registrations for entities that are known to be owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction of a Chinese entity or the Chinese government which do not meet the address and foreign entity criteria described above. Staff have provided comments where applicable to substantiate this website’s characterization of these entities as having connections to China.

The website additionally contains the registrations of the lobbying firms that have filed a registration identified by any of the above methods. Accordingly, not every person or entity that appears in this database has listed a China, Hong Kong or Macau foreign entity or address, has been specially identified by staff as subject to Chinese control, has submitted a filing for such a person or entity, or is listed as a lobbyist on such a filing.

Defining Key Terms

Client is connected to China: A person or entity that has submitted a registration filing pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act or had such a filing submitted on their behalf, which lists a Chinese, Hong Kong, or Macau address, or a Chinese, Hong Kong, or Macau entity as a “Foreign Entity” in such a filing. Other entities that staff have determined are owned by, controlled by, or are subject to the jurisdiction of a Chinese entity or the Chinese government are also categorized as “Connected to China.”

Lobbying firm has lobbied for China-connected client: A firm that has submitted a registration for a client that is “Connected to China.”

Lobbying terminated: A firm that has terminated their registration for a China-connected client.