Flurry of US Actions Strike Back at CCP’s Malign Influence

News Analysis

The United States has a new, bipartisan consensus on China’s threat that led to a flurry of hearings and bills designed to reinforce its position against this regime.

Since the first hearing of the new Select Committee on Chinese Communist Party (CCP), held on February 28, salvoes for legislation have been focused on Taiwan arms, illegal organ harvesting and banning TikTok.

“We may call this a ‘strategic competition,’ but this is not a polite tennis match,” Mike Gallagher, R.-Wisc., Chair of Select Committee At the time.

“This is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century, and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake.”

Fortifying Taiwan

A number of initiatives are being taken to defend democratic Taiwan from a CCP invasion.

Although Taiwan claims to be part of the CCP’s territory, the regime never ruled the island. For its part, the United States is legally obliged to provide Taiwan with weapons to defend itself against the CCP.

The United States is a good example of this. approved The potential sale of $619million in new weapons to Taiwan, March 3rd. This is in response to continued intimidation by the communist regime. They frequently send military aircraft and ships close to the island.

Deal includes 200 Anti-Aircraft Air-to–Air Missiles, 100 anti-aircraft missiles capable to taking out radar stations on the ground. This would give Taiwan an unasymmetrical advantage in comparison with larger CCP.

In the same vein, the United States works to overhaul its acquisition Certain high-end precision ammunitions, experts fear might be reduced in the case of a conflict with China.

U.S. Army officials, Douglas Bush, an Assistant Secretary to the Army said that they are working to ramp up production to solve the problems associated with replenishing the country’s stockpiles.

Diplomatically, Congress members are working to strengthen ties between Taiwanese and American.

Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker from Calif. was planning to travel to Taipei in order to meet President Tsai Tong-wen of Taiwan. But that meeting is not happening now rumored To be happening in the United States.

TikTok is over

A bipartisan consensus is emerging around TikTok’s Chinese-owned social media company, which was repeatedly identified by U.S intelligence officers as a national security risk.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance. ByteDance workers have used TikTok data in illegal ways. stalk American journalists Reporter on company relationship to the regime.

Twelve U.S. senators form a bipartisan group. Senators John Thune (R.S.D.), and Mark Warner (D.Va.) led the group. The Commerce Department will be able to announce legislation on March 7.ban or prohibitTech companies that are owned by hostile countries or other rogue states cannot do business in the United States.

Following a White House directive on February 27, the White House issued a new law prohibiting TikTok use by U.S. government device.

Also, on February 28, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted in favor of advancing a bill This would allow President Joe Biden to have additional power to completely ban TikTok in the United States.

Punishment of Forced Organ Harvesters

Congress directed legislation towards the CCP’s government-sanctioned forced organ harvesting campaign. House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously voted On February 28th, you can push for the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act (2023).

It would ban the entry of those who are involved in forced organ harvesting and block any financial transactions that take place on U.S. soil.

“People are finally waking up to the brutality of the CCP,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. (lead sponsor), made the statement in a statement dated February 28.

“We in the United States, in the medical field in particular, must examine our moral complicity in this most heinous of crimes.”

In 2019, an independent tribunal of the people found The communist regime forcibly took organs of prisoners of conscience. “significant scale” With the main target being persecuted followers of Falun Gong,

Congress Seeks Intel on Wuhan Lab Leak

Perhaps the most important thing is that members of Congress also calling Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, to hand over documents related to her latest assessment of COVID-19’s origins.

After a contentious week, the FBI and Department of Energy (DoE), both resigned, the FBI has now made the move. concluded COVID-19 likely came from a laboratory leak in Wuhan China.

The U.S. Senate was created to accomplish this end. unanimously passed A bill was introduced on March 1, which would oblige the Biden Administration to release intelligence related to COVID-19’s origins.

The COVID-19 Origin Act of Twenty23 (or the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023) aims at investigating the possibility of COVID-19 being transmitted from the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the public.

Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) Josh Hawley (R.Mo. After receiving a classified intelligence report from the DoE, the White House and some members of Congress regarding the matter, Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) prompted him to reintroduce the bill.

“I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here,” Christopher Wray, FBI Director, spoke with Fox News in an interview.

“You’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans.”