The China Task Force, a 15-member Republican entity, which is an adjunct of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released a sweeping report insisting that the United States must “act decisively” with its allies to combat China’s leadership actions. The report is the culmination of a months-long probe into the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and follows by a week the 96-page report issued by the Foreign Affairs Committee which blamed China for deliberately spreading the coronavirus pandemic and the related economic devastation, and attacked the World Health Organization (WHO) for colluding with and “appeasing” the CCP.
According to the Washington Examiner, this latest report demands that fighting China’s influence must be the “organizing principle” for policies in the U.S. and its allies. Task Force member Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) warned that China for some time “has been in a Cold War with us and we’re just now slowly waking up to it.” It is, he went on, “the most dangerous adversary we’ve ever faced in our history,” because of the size of its economy and the fact that it’s “stealing its way to the top technologically.”
