ICYMI: "We Need Strength"- Select Committee Presses Biden Administration on Lacking China Strategy
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This morning, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosted Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, Ely Ratner, and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Thea Rozman Kendler, in a hearing titled "The Biden Administration's PRC Strategy".
The officials entered the halls of Congress following months of escalating Chinese Communist Party aggression that has been met with a tepid and inadequate response from the Biden administration.
Watch highlights from the hearing below.
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Chairman Mike Gallagher's opening remarks:
“The administration has sanctioned more PRC persons for illegal fishing than it has for genocide. The problem…is that right now, good policies are stuck in the inter-agency process, in inter-agency purgatory: apparent sacrifices to the altar of zombie engagement.”
Click HERE for a downloadable video of Chairman Gallagher's remarks.
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Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi on the acute threat of Chinese cyberhacking:
“One of my own staff here on the Select Committee had his LinkedIn hacked. Jack was proud to join this Committee, so he went to update his LinkedIn profile, and this is what he found....This is not Jack.”
Click HERE for a downloadable video of Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi's remarks.
Chairman Gallagher questions witnesses on tech exports to Huawei:
Chairman Gallagher: “Do you believe… that U.S. technology should go to a company that spies on the U.S. like Huawei?"
Assistant Sec. Ratner: “No”
Assistant Sec. Kritenbrink: “No”
Assistant Sec. Kendler: “No”
Click HERE for a downloadable video of this exchange.
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Chairman Gallagher questions Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink on the Administration's failure to enforce the Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act:
Chairman Gallagher: “Have you ever advised Secretary Blinken
or Deputy Secretary Sherman … to delay sanctioning officials under the Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act?”
Assistant Sec. Kritenbrink: “I’m not in a position to comment…”
Chairman Gallagher: “You don’t want to answer the question.”
Click HERE for a downloadable video of this exchange.
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Rep. Barr (R-KY) on the Biden Administration's weak PRC strategy:
“We’ve seen a spy balloon traverse our sensitive military sites. We’ve seen a spy station set up 90 miles from the Continental U.S…
The American people need security. We need strength. We do not need weakness.”
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Click HERE for a downloadable video of Rep. Barr's remarks.
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Rep. Torres (D-NY) questions Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink on :
Rep. Torres: “We often use buzzwords to describe our approach to China… Have we gone beyond the buzzwords? Do we have an actual plan for de-risking? Do we have an actual timeline?”
Assistant Sec. Kritenbrink: “I can’t say that I have a specific timeline.”
Click HERE for a downloadable video of this exchange.
Click HERE for Chairman Gallagher's opening statement
Click HERE for Assistant Secretary Kritenbrink's written testimony
Click HERE for Assistant Secretary Ratner's written testimony
Click HERE for Assistant Secretary Kendler's written testimony
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