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“The Chinese Communist Party took advantage of the goodwill of the United States and laughed at our naiveté. Those days are over now.”
The U.S. House of Representatives special committee, which was created to lead the economic, technological, and security competition with China, held its first hearing on the 28th of last month and was launched in earnest. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the Special Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (Special Committee on US-China Strategic Competition), raised the level of vigilance against China to the fullest, saying, “Competition with China is an existential struggle.” The U.S. House of Representatives held four China-related committees on the same day, including this special committee, and urged the government and Congress to take an urgent response to China.
The U.S.-China strategic competition special committee held its first public hearing at 7:00 p.m. This special committee is a bipartisan committee that was decided by a vote of 365 to 65 in favor in January of this year, right after the 118th Congress, in which Republicans took the majority of the House, was held. Even at the hearing, the two parties of the Democratic Republic and the Republican Party shared the perception that ‘the biggest challenge for the United States is China’.
Republican Chairman Gallagher, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, emphasized, “We cannot allow Chinese technology to overtake us.” Gallagher began the hearing by playing a video about the Cultural Revolution in China and human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. In the scene in which Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared in the video, English subtitles read, “Like a gangster, a genocide organization.”
“Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party thought that China’s expansion of trade and investment would encourage democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, but in reality, the exact opposite has happened,” said Rep. I did,” he criticized.
“China is not our enemy” protest at the hearing A woman holds up the phrase “China is not our enemy” behind former White House National Security Council (NSC) aide Herbert McMaster, who testified at the hearing of the US-China Strategic Competition Special Committee. Washington = AP NewsisAt the hearing that day, former aide Herbert McMaster, who led the White House National Security Council (NSC) during the Donald Trump administration, and former deputy aide Matthew Pottinger, a public hardliner, appeared as witnesses. Former deputy aide Pottinger pointed out, “The Chinese Communist Party leadership is a master at hiding their true intentions,” and “there is no excuse for being fooled by Beijing anymore.” When former aide McMaster testified, two protesters protested holding pieces of paper with the words “China is not America’s enemy” and “Stop hating Asia” and were kicked out.
Tong Li, a Chinese human rights activist who used to be the secretary of Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident who defected to the United States, also came out as a witness and said, “The United States fed the ‘baby dragon’ of the Chinese Communist Party to grow.” In the process of finding labor, China has also become wealthy.”
On this day, the US House Finance Committee passed a number of bills to support Taiwan and pressure China. Legislation supporting Taiwan’s accession to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), blocking senior Chinese officials and their families from accessing U.S. financial institutions if China poses a threat to Taiwan, and requiring Chinese representatives to participate in G20 finance ministerial meetings. A bill was included to rule it out.
It also passed a bill requiring the Treasury Department to publish a report on the threat posed by China’s financial sector to the international economy, a bill to pressure the IMF, the largest shareholder of the United States, to reduce China’s economic influence, and a bill requiring China to be transparent about exchange rates. did. Politico, a US political media outlet, reported that “10 bills aimed at controlling China’s economic power were passed almost unanimously.”
The House Foreign Relations Committee deliberated on a bill that would give the president the power to ban the use of Chinese social media TikTok nationwide. In addition, a bill to hold China accountable for the Chinese reconnaissance balloon incident was also introduced to the foreign affairs committee. The House Science and Space Technology Committee also held a hearing on the same day to discuss the impact of competition with China on U.S. research and development (R&D).
Source: Donga
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