On Tuesday, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill to the House that declares China the top economic and national security threat to the US. The legislation, dubbed the China Task Force Act, was authored by House minority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and co-sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX).
The bill would enact 137 legislative recommendations made by the China Task Force in a report released last month. The China Task Force is made up of 15 GOP legislators. It was set up in May 2020 to assess the threat of Beijing and find legislative solutions to combat the risks that the hawkish lawmakers think China poses.
The act says China’s Communist Party has “risen to become the United States’ prevailing economic and national security threat of this generation.” The bill makes it clear that the Republican lawmakers believe the US is engaged in a new Cold War with China.
“As in the United States’ prior great power competition with a communist superpower, the United States’ goal should be the end of the CCP’s monopoly on power, rather than indefinite coexistence with a fundamentally hostile communist state,” the bill reads.
In a statement released announcing the bill, Rep. McCarthy calls on Democrats to join the GOP effort to counter China. “Democrats should finally join us in holding the CCP accountable — our country, and the world, can no longer afford inaction.”
… Well this is not the nice change from Democratic Russophobia some were hoping for…
Makes sense. America’s raison d’etre is to always have enemies. It’s a sacred mission given to the US by its Lord. LOL!
That bill must have been introduced before it became public that President Trump is doing business in China and has a bank account in China.
What?! Russia and Iran aren’t scary enough anymore? China is the new and improved boogyman.
Welcome to the new cold-war arms race.
15 people think China is a threat, and now they’re going to waste taxpayer money polishing their “conservative” cred so they can hit the campaign trail and declare their opponent insufficiently frightened enough of China.
The GOP wing of the Swamp.
The MIC gets a new lease on life and spend trillions more to fight a New Cold War Against China. The US Predator Class is addicted to rent- seeking monopolies, cartels and other rackets and too degenerate to compete with china on the technology sphere.
Meanwhile China is investing huge resources in advanced R&D and their labor force, creating the products and processes that will dominate the rest of the century. Poetic justice.
Chinese “threat” is its booming and vastly superior rapid economic and technical expansion, attracting increasingly more nations to engage in business ventures with that country. That cannot be stopped by militairy means. US dependence on arms production weakens its economy, widening the gap between rich and poor and causing more discontent and violence. In other words US is digging its own grave.