Should the US ban Chinese drones? [Video]

You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player

The gentlelady from New York is recognised.

I rise today in support of my bipartisan legislation, the Countering CCP Drones Act.

If you want a drone that’s easy to fly, that’s readily available, that’s affordable, and that’s among the best drones you can get, if not the best, then you’ll end up with DJI.

DJI is known as the world’s largest manufacturer of civilian drones. So that means everything from a small consumer drone that you might use for home videos, all the way up to products that are used in the agricultural sector. We’re talking big, 55kg and above products that are used for agricultural seed spreading, spraying pesticides, and things along those lines.

These flying robots obviously can be used for nefarious purposes. I remember thinking, as we were building our drones and we were selling hundreds of thousands of these drones, just thinking, like, man, please don’t let this stuff get into the wrong …