The U.S. Senate will hold a bipartisan hearing next Wednesday (April 14) on two important bills to be introduced. The bills are aimed at enhancing the country’s competitiveness to counter the growing global influence of the Chinese Communist Party. The bills also target the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of ethnic minorities, its crackdown on Hong Kong and its aggressive behavior in the South China Sea.
Reuters reported that the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to meet next Wednesday to consider a major bipartisan bill, a U.S. Senate aide revealed on Thursday (April 8). The bill aims to enhance the country’s competitiveness to counter the expanding global influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
The proposed bill, called the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, says Washington wants to, among other things, encourage allies to do more to counter Beijing’s “aggressive and arbitrary behavior.
The bipartisan bill is sponsored by the committee’s Democratic chairman, Bob Menendez, and the committee’s top Republican, Jim Risch.
The 283-page draft bill would require each federal department and agency to designate a senior official to coordinate policy issues related to strategic competition with the Chinese Communist Party.
The bill is part of a broad anti-communist effort in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced in February that he would introduce a bill to constrain the Chinese Communist Party.
In addition to the Foreign Relations Committee’s proposed Strategic Competition Act of 2021, the Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) announced Wednesday that it will hold an April 14 hearing on the proposed bipartisan Endless Frontier Act. The bill is designed to promote U.S. technology research and development efforts.
The package of legislation also reflects a bipartisan, congressional hardline approach to Beijing.
The bill calls for $110 billion over five years to advance U.S. technology development. It also addresses matters of humanitarian and democratic values, such as the CCP’s persecution of minorities such as the Muslim Uighurs, the CCP’s crackdown on Hong Kong dissidents, and its aggression in the South China Sea.
The bill was introduced back in 2020.
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