China Committee

Tuesday

Cockburn

Mitch McConnell stands against TikTok

Mitch McConnel is tackling America’s biggest national security threat — TikTok. In a Senate speech Monday, McConnell implored his fellow senators to pass the bill requiring the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face the app being banned from app stores within the United States. Passed by the House on March 13, the bill — officially known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — has stalled in the Senate.  “America’s greatest strategic rival is threatening our security right here on US soil... in tens of millions of American homes.,” McConnell declared from the Senate floor. “I’m speaking, of course, about TikTok.

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Thursday

John Pietro

A Chinese wargame in the halls of Congress

The House Select Committee on the CCP held a wargame Wednesday evening where members played the role of the US in a showdown with Beijing over Taiwan. As Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher said after the event, “We are well within the window of maximum danger for a [CCP] invasion of Taiwan, and yesterday’s wargame stressed the need to take action to deter CCP aggression and arm Taiwan to the teeth before any crisis begins.” The results of the game were — as Gallagher predicted in his opening statement — “sobering.”  A source close to the Committee told The Spectator that a critical lesson taken by participants was that deterrence must be the top priority.

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