US lawmakers on a new House committee on China slammed the Chinese Communist party over issues from espionage to human rights abuses in an inaugural hearing that exhibited Washington’s increasingly tough bipartisan stance on Beijing.
In opening comments that set a sharp tone for the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party, chair Mike Gallagher said the panel would “investigate and expose the ideological, technological and military threat posed by the Chinese Communist party”.
“This is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake,” said Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican and one of the most vocal China critics in Congress.