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Now a Sinophobic House committee, created by a Russophile GOP, Steve Bannon, and anti-vaxxers [1]
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Date: 2023-01-10
Media groups like the New Federal State of China’s GTV formed by Steve Bannon with oligarch Guo Wengui and the Falun gong—associated Epoch Times will profit from their Republican associations. For American conservatives, this plays to rising anti-Chinese sentiment and is symptomatic of Sinophobia based in the Trump bungling of the COVID outbreak. What will be the over-under on investigating Trump trademarks and bank account in China. The GOP semantic infiltration is branding like “pro-life”, “Russiagate”, and “Fake News”.
x The U.S.'s new Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 365-65 to create a "Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party." "All 65 of the 'no' votes came from Democrats."
https://t.co/QNcWLE0ioj — Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) January 11, 2023
"We certainly don't want it to turn into a place that perpetuates anti-Asian hate," McGovern said, citing past rhetoric such as Republican former President Donald Trump's labeling of COVID-19 as "the China virus."
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy insisted the panel would not be partisan.
"You have my word and my commitment. This is not a partisan committee. This will be a bipartisan committee," McCarthy said in remarks urging the House to back the bill.
He said the committee would address issues such as bringing jobs back from China to the United States, securing intellectual property and bringing supply chains back to the country.
In addition to those issues, there has been friction in U.S.-China relations over the huge trade deficit with China, Chinese pressure on Taiwan, and Beijing's transparency over its handling of COVID-19, which first surfaced in that country.
The new committee will be chaired by Republican Representative Mike Gallagher.
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x .@chrislhayes and @RepRubenGallego discuss how there are more Mikes with gavels than there are women or people of color among the incoming GOP House committee chairs. But also #NotAllMikes pic.twitter.com/p5pR0LeY9k — All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) January 11, 2023
x The US Congress has always been a "den of thieves" against China, while China evidently lacks roles corresponding to figures like McCarthy. China needs a few more "hawks" able to "bite" Washington. pic.twitter.com/KQFF1kYQV8 — Zhang Meifang张美芳 (@CGMeifangZhang) January 8, 2023
Superficially, the crisis of the House speakership is due to some radical conservative lawmakers of the GOP being dissatisfied with McCarthy, but in essence, it is Washington's deepened political polarization.
Political infight between the two parties and within both parties has grown to the extent in which it affects the normal functioning of not only the political parties, but also legislative branch. It signals the dysfunction of (the) US political system, Yang Xiyu, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times.
US politics is confronting the gravest predicament in a century. Against this backdrop, even though the speaker has been elected, it will be difficult for McCarthy to make a difference in domestic politics, and the country will suffer more political pain. The difficult election indicates that the widened division within the GOP and between the two parties will add a pile of uncertainty to McCarthy as a House speaker. In fact, the election has fully exposed McCarthy's weak position. It will turn out to be difficult for him to lead the House.
Partisan politics will severely hit and distort the normal operation of Congress, especially the House. The bills and acts that the House needs to pass will be increasingly influenced by partisan struggle and internal struggle within the party. In this scenario, whether a bill can be passed will not be on the basis of the merits of the subject but on bargaining and making compromise.
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