Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the section 1260H list maintained by the Department of Defense was created by the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and intended to identify any Chinese military companies operating directly or indirectly in the United States. Section 1260H is a part of a largely bipartisan, years-long effort to name and shame CCP companies operating in our Nation. While the Biden administration has made important additions to this list, including military companies such as ChemChina and China State Construction Engineering, the administration has still fallen short of a full commitment to countering the malign influences of the CCP. Earlier this year, we saw Secretaries Yellen, Blinken, and Raimondo take trips to China as part of a diplomatic overture. Many of my colleagues would undoubtedly agree that the CCP could care less about diplomacy and that these trips have very little, if any, bearing on how China chooses to behave on the international stage. One could argue that these trips only serve to demonstrate the limits and the lack of American resolve to confront the PRC's obviously petulant behavior. For instance, it is a daily occurrence to see the PRC infringe on Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone. The PRC regularly makes threats to wage war against Taiwan. They manipulate international organizations to do their bidding. They entrap developing countries into contracts that make them de facto vassal states.…”