Republican U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher was named on Thursday to lead a select committee being created in the U.S. House of Representatives to focus on economic and security competition with China.
Gallagher, a former Marine counterintelligence officer who has served on the House Armed Services Committee, has been a vocal critic of China's Communist government.
"The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geopolitical threat of our lifetime," McCarthy said in a statement as he announced Gallagher's selection. For example, the U.S. Justice Department under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, earlier this year ended a Trump-era program called thefocused on fighting Chinese espionage and intellectual property theft that critics had said amounted to racial profiling and chilled scientific research.
McCarthy's office has said the committee would investigate issues such as China's role as a supplier of fentanyl, Chinese government influence over U.S. academic institutions, Beijing's state and local-level lobbying efforts in the United States, and the "covert threat" of Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
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