The new House Select Committee on China will hold its first hearing on Tuesday night, featuring testimony from former national security officials and others who could provide a “concrete assessment” of the threat the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the United States. increase.
Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) invited former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger. Former National Security Advisor HR McMaster. Chinese human rights defender Tong Yi. Scott Paul, president of the American Manufacturing Federation, testifies.
A hearing titled “The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to America” is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The committee was created by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for the 118th Congress and was established with broad bipartisan support.
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Former National Security Advisor HR McMaster is one of several witnesses who attended Tuesday night’s hearing of the House China Committee. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Gallagher said his intentions at the hearing were areas of unity for both Republicans and Democrats on the committee to lead with a “human rights focus” and a “values-focused” agenda. That is.
“We want this committee to be bipartisan, so I think it’s a natural theme for us to start with,” Gallagher said.
Former Trump aide Matthew Pottinger discusses his views on the Chinese threat Tuesday night. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Gallagher said there would be no “100% agreement on everything”, but acknowledged that “there are meaningful differences between the parties on this aspect of strategic competition.”
“But I believe there is a center of gravity that can be identified and built,” Gallagher said.
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Tuesday’s hearing is the first in a series of hearings to be held by the commission.
“We will unravel the many facets of the Chinese Communist Party threat. It’s a part of,” Gallagher said. .
Gallagher said, “We will hold a series of public hearings to identify constructive and immediate solutions to the issues raised by the Chinese Communist Party so that they can be implemented now, even if the government is divided in the next two years.” I will do it,” he said.
Gallagher said competing with China should be viewed as a “long-term marathon.” He and panel members said they wanted to introduce “smart” and “forward-looking legislation” on China.
Congressman Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin Republican. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The hearings come amid heightened tensions between the United States and China.
The Department of Energy, which was previously undecided about the origins of the pandemic, joins the FBI’s position that the coronavirus was most likely spread by a leak from a Chinese lab. wall street journal reported on Sunday. The newspaper reported that a classified intelligence report was recently provided to key members of the White House and Congress.
The laboleek theory, or the theory that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology Laboleek Wuhan, Chinawas widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory and “misinformation” by Democrats, major news outlets, scientists and social media companies in the early stages of the pandemic.
Earlier this month, a Chinese reconnaissance balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina after spending about a week flying over a nuclear base on the US mainland.
A large balloon drifts over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, February 4, with a fighter plane and its contrail below. (Chad Fish, via AP)
Diplomatic communication channels are now open between Washington and Beijing, but China cut communications with the US military after then-Chairman Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year.
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The visit sparked an increase in Chinese aggression in the South China Sea, with experts predicting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by 2024.
Over the weekend, Gallagher held an event today at the former Chinese Communist Party illegal police station in downtown Manhattan. The FBI recently raided the location, but there are still others in the United States, he said.
Gallagher told Fox News Digital that he hopes the FBI will introduce legislation that would give it more tools to “more aggressively” pursue the Chinese Communist Party’s threats. FBI Director Wray has warned China that Beijing is the biggest national security threat to the United States.
Gallagher said he plans to work with the Biden administration to address the threat.
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“You can find parts of the executive branch and work with them and find where I disagree or where I feel the White House is doing things that undermine our stance on the Chinese Communist Party. I feel I have an obligation to speak up and be honest, not just to condemn Biden, but hopefully to improve our policies,” Gallagher said.
“We all want America to win this race, and that’s all.”
