CHINA

China is an adversary.

China spies and it steals intellectual property. It caused COVID epidemics. It commits genocide against Uyghurs. It flies balloons over our military bases and sets up military operations in Cuba. It buys up American farmland and food companies. It violates international trade agreements. It engages in unfair practices designed to destroy and replace American businesses.

It sets up its own secret police stations in American cities. It harasses our military and civilian planes and sails fleets of warships near the Alaska coast. It builds larger and larger supplies of nuclear weapons and will have rough parity with our country by 2035. It assists threats by North Korea and Russia to our country and our allies.

It builds hostile military bases in the South China Sea and in Africa and is trying to make similar arrangements in South America.

All of this hostile activity cannot be ignored.

I support the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act to prevent sales from emergency supplies in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to any entity associated with the Chinese Communist Party.

I support a resolution to stop cheating by Chinese solar manufacturers who circumvent U.S. tariffs by delivering their products through third-party countries.

We need new laws to encourage American businesses in China to come home so that supply chains are less vulnerable.

The Chinese threat to Taiwan also threatens world trade especially through the South China Sea.  America must prepare Taiwan to defend itself.  It also must strengthen alliances with Japan, Australia, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and others.  There is a need to build more ships.

An economic battle with China over primacy of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency threatens access to capital, higher borrowing costs and lower stock market values.

We must wage a political contest with China for influence, especially in Africa.

There are Chinese cyber-attacks, threats in outer space where communications satellites are located, and infiltrations of American universities and research facilities.

And, of course, the Chinese produce ingredients for deadly fentanyl.

It would be naive to think China does not knows full well what it is doing.