ICYMI: Moolenaar Joins China Desk Podcast to Discuss Chairmanship and Break Down the CCP Threats to America

WASHINGTON DC — In case you missed it, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party joined the Federal Newswire's "China Desk" podcast with host Steve Yates in a brand new episode released today. On the show, Chairman Moolenaar discussed his leadership of the Select Committee, and his priorities for action in Congress to address the harsh reality of the Chinese Communist Party's global ambitions, including on fentanyl, supply chains and trade.

LISTEN: "We need to be very clear eyed about what China's ambitions are, and they are global in nature. Then, how do we reset that relationship accordingly, on the military, economic human rights across the board." - Chairman Moolenaar addresses the main tasks to defend against the ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party.

Listen to the Chairman's full podcast interview HERE, read the full transcript HERE, with key moments highlighted below:

Moolenaar on the bipartisan nature of the Select Committee:

"The members on the committee are very serious minded. You don't have a lot of effort to score political points. You have people asking very good questions on how the US policy should address the changing nature of this relationship with China. It has really been a pleasure to see this. My goal of the committee is to continue to build on the excellent work that Mike Gallagher and the team has started, which has been very bipartisan and meaningful across a wide spectrum of different issues."

On the Select Committee's groundbreaking fentanyl report:

"The groundbreaking report that our committee presented with actual evidence of China was their tax policy where they are actually offering tax rebates to chemical companies in China to manufacture and export the chemical precursors for fentanyl. Not the fentanyl is used in hospitals for medical purposes, but the fentanyl that's used to poison people. Ultimately, the idea that was their government policy being promoted through websites and an active drug distribution that was going on was shocking."

On dealing with the CCP's abusive trade tactics and global aggression:

"Most of us believe in free and fair trade. It is free trade among free nations and when that gets distorted, it makes it very hard to say let's just have free trade. We know that China has been stealing our intellectual property, coopting businesses, showing aggression in transnational repression, and intimidating people on our soil. It is a different kind of relationship... for the last several decades, the hope was that China would become more open, more freedom loving, more democratic, but under Xi Jinping, they have gone in exactly the opposite direction."