WASHINGTON – Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Communist Party of China warned President Biden in a letter Thursday against continuing his “repeated concessions” to Beijing in face-to-face meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“We are concerned that the recent prioritization of bilateral engagement has come at an unacceptable cost to ‘competitive’ or defensive actions that have been delayed, stalled, or otherwise dropped in efforts to bring the PRC to the table — all for less clear benefits. ,” they wrote, using China’s official acronym.
Biden is widely expected to meet with Xi in San Francisco on the sidelines of next week’s APEC Leadership Summit, which will bring together the heads of state of participating Asia-Pacific nations.
In their letter, committee members further questioned Biden’s move to speak with the leader of America’s archenemy, noting that “in many ways, the summit marked the culmination of efforts by your administration … to engage with [China] with the hope of ‘building a floor under the relationship’ as the official described it.”
Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned President Biden in a letter Thursday against continuing his “repeated concessions” to Beijing.Getty Images
Led by Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the bipartisan CCP select committee focused on the growing tensions between the US and China and developed policy proposals to manage the competition between the two.
In Thursday’s letter, Republican caucus members listed 10 demands they suggested Biden make to Xi “before the end of the APEC summit.”
The demands include the release of all US citizens wrongfully detained in China, an end to “all near-miss collisions and unsafe intercepts” with American forces at sea and in the air and a major program suspension of the PRC’s forced labor program in Xinjiang.”
Biden is widely expected to meet with Xi in San Francisco on the sidelines of next week’s APEC Leadership Summit, which will bring together the heads of state of participating Asia-Pacific nations. Reuters
Other demands include Xi allowing “all US citizens who are banned from leaving [China] immediately”; establishing a “‘know your customer’ requirement” on shipments of fentanyl substances in China; stop “all military operations in the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone,” which Beijing does not respect; and to cease “all present and future interference with Philippine vessels” in the South China Sea.
“Despite repeated concessions from Washington, Beijing has taken no action to stem the flow of deadly fentanyl precursors to North America, no action to increase market access consistent with its trade commitments, no action to reduce tensions in the Taiwan Strait or stop them. dangerous military provocations in the South China Sea, and no action to stop an unprecedented espionage campaign against the United States,” the GOP member wrote.
“On the contrary, many of these problems are getting worse, especially over the past year,” they added.
In their letter, committee members further questioned Biden’s actions to speak with the leader of America’s arch-enemy.Getty Images
While the group noted Biden’s more recent actions — or lack thereof — toward China, they noted that “this is not always the case,” and expressed hope that the president could return to a more assertive approach to Beijing.
Actions they applaud include Biden’s actions against Chinese officials “for eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy” and “for genocide in Xinjiang,” as well as expanding restrictions on American investment in China’s “military industrial complex” during his first year in the White House.
“Despite these initial steps, your administration has presided over a significant decline in these actions over the past 18 months, particularly those related to human rights,” they wrote. “With notable exceptions such as strengthened semiconductor export controls and new restrictions on outbound investment — which we strongly support — self-censorship of defense actions appears to have soared.”
Next week will be the second time Biden and Xi have met in person since Biden took office in January 2021. The two previously met last November during the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia.
With the presidential election 12 months away, Republicans told Biden next week “presents one last chance to reverse your misguided policies.”
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