Combating China
Even now, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continues to bombard the United States by means of unconventional warfare. Today, our brave men and women in the armed forces shot down another unidentified object that matches the CCP surveillance balloon taken down off the coast of South Carolina last week. China is not an ally or a strategic partner. They are our competitor and pose the single greatest threat to America’s global standing.
This week my colleagues and I in the House Financial Services Committee held our first hearing, “Combating the Economic Threat from China,” to assess the CCP’s attempts to steal intellectual property, labor, and tariff goods to undermine America. Committee Republicans are unified and understand we must outcompete China on the global stage by reinforcing American values, rather than undermining them. The economic strength and vibrancy produced by our system of free market capitalism directly fuels America’s military strength and cultural power.
China clearly has a plan to disrupt American commerce and global influence. Rather than take each threat from China individually, we need a comprehensive mindset and agenda when dealing with their unified and highly organized effort to undermine us. To do so, our country needs broad agreement on our economic policies. We should ensure the United States’ defensively and offensively policies and practices to combat the CCP have greater longevity than a single President's administration. My colleagues and I will continue to hold hearings and develop solutions aimed at combating the Chinese Communist Party.
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During our hearing, Democrats attempted to disrupt and impede our clear and deliberate questions to witnesses. Rather than join us in thoroughly addressing Republicans’ concerns, they resorted to a prolonged battle. Now that the hearing has concluded, it seems clear that Twitter was not only censoring political viewpoints but doing so at the behest of the Executive branch and the FBI, who hold alternative motives. Any attempts to do so are a clear violation of the first amendment. Congress must quickly quash bad-faith actors.
