The new House China Select Committee previewed its agenda in a prime-time hearing yesterday that revealed early partisan fault lines. Republicans focused on Beijing as an existential threat, while Democrats pushed strengthening U.S. competitiveness.
Chairman Mike Gallagher, joined at left by Rep. Rob Wittman, leads the GOP’s new House China Select Committee at the Capitol, on Feb. 28, 2023. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP PhotoThe new House China Select Committee previewed its agenda for this Congress in a prime-time evening hearing on Tuesday that revealed early partisan fault lines in the body’s legislative agenda.
The hearing — whose witnesses included former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster — marked the climax of a full day of intensive congressional scrutiny of China through seven hearings on Tuesday.hecklers from the activist peace group Code Pink
, the committee’s 24 members heard from witnesses who painted a lurid portrait of an America at acute risk from malign Chinese government activities. Witnesses and committee members raised perennial bilateral tensions ranging from Taiwan, trade and TikTok to supply chain security and human rights.with a video of quotes by China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping that suggested hostile intentions toward the United States.
But the hearing revealed stark differences in how GOP and Democratic committee members perceive the U.S.-China rivalry and the strategies to approach it. laid out a GOP vision of an external facing “existential struggle” against China’s “ideological, technological, economic and military threat.” Democratic committee members countered with a more domestic-focused approach hinged to bolstering U.S.
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