On Wednesday, Rep will introduce. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) passed a resolution recognizing the Chinese government, known as the People’s Republic of China (PRC), as the greatest external threat to the peace, security and stability of the United States. ,” Breitbart News learned.
The resolution outlines China’s various threats to the United States, militarily and economically, and refers to Beijing’s growing aggression in its assertion of sovereignty over Taiwan and Asia-Pacific waters, through which trillions of global trade flow.
He also called for commitment to a strategic foreign policy towards China “based on the principle of realism” developed during the Trump administration.
Biggs’ decision comes after it was revealed that the Biden administration sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state gas company affiliated with President Joe Biden’s son and Hunter Biden. The action comes after the Biden administration lifted tariffs on solar panels allegedly made in China.
Biggs had previously presented the resolution in October 2020, but resubmitted it to the 117th Congress.
Here is the resolution:
Recognizing the People’s Republic of China as the greatest external threat to the peace, security and stability of the United States.
The population of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is about 1,400,000,000, compared to the population of the United States, which is about 330,000,000;
While the PRC economy is the world’s second largest economy in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), it is second only to the United States;
While China’s GDP is likely to surpass that of the United States in the coming decades;
While the PRC has the world’s largest active army;
Meanwhile, the PRC has dedicated its military capabilities to its own aggressive modernization over the coming decades;
While the PRC has nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles;
Because the PRC does not share democratic or values in the United States market;
Xi Jinping is the PRC’s de facto supreme leader since November 2012, when he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission;
With the title commonly referred to as “President” in Western sources, Xi became the head of state of the PRC in March 2013;
While President Xi has certainly violated the foreign policy restrictions imposed by his predecessors;
Because President Xi said in a speech at the National People’s Congress in 2018 that the PRC “must ride the strong east wind of the new era, advance with full tanks and continue to flee with all his might”;
While the PRC has neo-imperial ambitions to expand its power worldwide;
Meanwhile, the PRC launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 to fund transportation and energy infrastructure projects in dozens of countries;
Because most BRI countries are poor, unstable or possibly vulnerable to debt reliance on Beijing;
While the United States has very delicate strategic relations with many BRI countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan;
Despite widespread calls for greater transparency from the PRC, the United States, the International Monetary Fund and other governments and multinational organizations, some details about the BRI have been released;
While the PRC was uncertain about the BRI, it has been very open about its ambitions in the South China Sea in recent years;
While the PRC claims “undisputed sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and adjacent waters”;
Because the claim of sovereignty in other countries in the region is not “indisputable”;
Meanwhile, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines, an ally in the US deal, dispute the PRC’s extensive claims in the South China Sea;
As the PRC continues to build militarized artificial islands in the South China Sea to strengthen its position;
With US markets, trillions of dollars of ocean freight each year pass through the South China Sea;
While the PRC continues to assert its sovereignty over Taiwan aggressively;
Meanwhile, on September 30, 2020, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, “We will strongly oppose and suppress any separatist behavior and foreign intervention aimed at ‘Taiwan independence’… and support the reunification… of the motherland”;
While Beijing’s claims of sovereignty over Taiwan are refuted by the fact that the Taiwanese have ruled their island independently for over 70 years;
Since Taiwan is an important friend and partner of the USA in the field of regional security;
Meanwhile, the bond between Taiwan and the United States has been strengthened by the Taiwan Relations Act, the Taiwan Travel Act, and the “Six Guarantees” first proclaimed by the Reagan administration in 1982;
While the PRC continues to restrict the rights of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region residents;
Meanwhile, on June 30, 2020, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed a comprehensive national security law that broadly criminalizes democratic participation and protests in Hong Kong;
This law and other efforts to restrict democratic participation in Hong Kong are intended to respect the PRC’s long tradition of economic and democratic freedom to the United Kingdom in 1984 and 1997, 50 years since July 1, 1997. in breach of his word;
Increasingly hostile action by the Beijing government threatens 85,000 US residents and 1,300 US companies operating in Hong Kong;
In addition to the aforementioned and other geostrategic threats, the PRC has a significant impact on the US economy;
Whereas, the PRC holds more than $1,000 billion in US Treasury bonds, more than any foreign country other than Japan;
Meanwhile, in recent years, the PRC has maintained a massive trade surplus against the United States, estimated at $345,600 billion in 2019, by manipulating its currency and maintaining unreasonably high tariffs, among other things;
While the PRC regularly forces US companies that enter its market to issue their intellectual property rights and licenses;
Meanwhile, the PRC often launches cyberattacks against US companies to steal trade secrets or other confidential information that it would not otherwise be able to obtain;
Because cyberattacks originating from the PRC target not only companies, but also the interests of the US government and defense, academic institutions, non-profit organizations and ordinary citizens; together
While the PRC is likely to have access to the personal data of most US citizens:
Passed by the House of Representatives (with the approval of the Senate) Congress—
(1) Recognizes that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) currently poses the greatest external threat to the peace, security and stability of the United States;
(2) Recognizes that the PRC, whatever its future leadership, will continue to be a major competitor to the United States in the decades to come, owing to the combined size and scope of its population, economy, and military capabilities; together
(3) Supports the Trump Administration’s overall strategic approach to the PRC when it comes to the national interests of the United States, based on principled realism and stable but measurable competition, as noted in sources including but not limited to:
(A) US Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China (May 2020);
(B) United States National Defense Strategy (October 2018);
(C) United States National Cyber Strategy (September 2018); together
(D) United States National Security Strategy (December 2017).
Source: Breitbart
