U.S. Sen. Teb Cruz (R-Texas) warned Tuesday (March 2) that every action he has seen from the Biden administration in recent days has been to reduce pressure on the Chinese Communist Party. He doubted that the Biden Administration would “systematically and deliberately” “embrace” communist China.
In his Senate floor speech on Tuesday, Cruz said, “So far, we’ve seen every action, every nomination by the Biden administration, as far as it relates to the Chinese (Communist) state, reduce the scrutiny, reduce the sanctions, reduce the pressure on Communist China.” “We’ve seen Biden’s stable and systematic embrace of Communist China, and that’s dangerous. It’s brutalizing our country.”
Cruz opposed the confirmation of Biden’s nominee for Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. He argued that Raimondo has joined the “rush to embrace the worst elements of the Chinese Communist Party.
During her confirmation hearing, Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo declined to clarify whether she would uphold trade restrictions on Chinese telecom giant huawei. Cruz called Huawei a “spy agency of the Chinese Communist Party. Still, the Senate voted 84 to 15 Tuesday to confirm her as commerce secretary.
Over the past two years of the Trump administration, the Commerce Department has placed Huawei and its roughly 150 affiliates on a sanctions list in a bid to remove Huawei from critical U.S. technology and software. The Federal Communications Commission officially designated Huawei as a national security threat in June last year.
During her Jan. 26 confirmation hearing, Raimondo pledged to take a tough stance against China to protect U.S. telecom networks from Chinese anti-competitive practices. But she declined to say whether she would keep Huawei on the blacklist. At Cruz’s urging, she said she would work with lawmakers, industry and allies to “evaluate it in terms of what is best for U.S. national and economic security.”
Cruz said, “As my colleagues know, nominees will never take a more aggressive and transparent stand than their confirmation process.” “And Raimondo refused to reveal how she would act even when she was confirmed as Commerce Secretary.”
For now, the Biden team line wants to project a tough image of China (the Communist Party), but is often elusive on details. White House press secretary Jen Psaki described the relationship as “one of intense competition,” citing the need for a strategic, multilateral approach in dealing with China.
Katherine Tai, a nominee for U.S. trade representative, described the U.S. relationship with the Chinese Communist regime as “simultaneously a competitor, a trading partner and a large player that also needs to work together to address certain global challenges. And William Burns, Biden’s nominee for CIA director, called Beijing a “powerful authoritarian,” but also noted areas of “common interest” such as climate change.
At the same Time, Chinese officials have made a lot of rhetorical noise about U.S. demands for issues such as trade, Taiwan, Hong Kong and human rights as a prerequisite for “healthy” diplomatic relations.
Cruz said that while U.S. officials of both political parties have been mistaking Beijing for a friend, the Communist Party virus (COVID-19) pandemic has opened the world’s eyes to “a systematic pattern of lies, deception and death from the Chinese Communist government.
Cruz said the U.K. was preparing to let Huawei build its 5G network after the pandemic, but “stepped back from the brink” after the country realized the threat of the Communist regime. He argued that the Biden administration’s pattern of appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party “will not alleviate the concerns of U.S. allies, but will encourage them to work with Huawei to build a spy system in the country.
Cruz said, “It will make the United States more vulnerable, and it will make our allies more vulnerable, in order to make the world more vulnerable.”
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