The US House Select Committee on Competition with the Chinese Communist Party

Yes, there is a committee in the US House of Representatives whose function is to monitor the competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Not competition between US business and trade interests vis a vis that of the Chinese nation but between the US as a whole and the Chinese Communist Party, which rules that country.

The members of the committee are: 

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.)

Ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.)

Jake Auchincloss (D- Ma.)  Andy Kim (D-NJ)

Jim Banks (R-Ind.)              Darin La Hood (R-Il)

Andy Barr (R-Ky)                Blaine Leutkemeyer (R-Mo)

Shontel Brown (D-Oh)        John Moolenaar (R-Mi)    

Andre Carson (D-Ind)        Seth Moulton (D-Ma)

Kathy Castor (D-Fla)         Dan Newhouse (R-Wa)

Neal Dunn (R-Fla)             Mike Sherrill (D-NJ)           Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla)      Michelle Steel (R-Ca)

Ashley Hinson (R-Ia)         Haley Stevens (D-Mi)

Dusty Johnson (R-SD)        Richie Torres (D-NY)

Ro Khanna (D-Ca)             Rob Wittman (R-Va) 

 

The committee is introducing legislation on March 7 to, among other things, forbid Tik Tok from taking over the minds of juvenile Americans.

"Not only is the CCP-controlled TikTok an immense national security risk to our country, it is also poisoning the minds of our youth every day on a massive scale. China is our enemy, and we need to start acting like it. I am proud to partner with Representatives Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi on this bipartisan bill to ban the distribution of TikTok in the US. This legislation will make our country better off and more secure," said Chip Roy, US Representative of the 21st district of Texas, north of San Antonio and including parts of Austin.

If, indeed, China is our "enemy", over a billion souls are our enemy, this is a serious situation. If a social media web-site from any location is poisoning our youth on a massive scale something needs to be done about it. But an even bigger problem seems to exist, at least in some minds. That problem is the fragility of American "democracy", an issue for many decades. According to   James McHenry, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention, there's this quote from Benjamin Franklin: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”

Franklin probably wasn't talking about an invasion from across the seas. It was more likely that the republic would be endangered by domestic forces. Such remains the case today. Few sensible people are worried about Chinese or Russian troops occupying Des Moines or Rapid City. In the case of Tik Tok or Chinese-built dock cranes acquiring valuable information, what information would that be? On the other hand, there seems to be no end of government intrusion on the privacy of its own citizens. 

We hear regularly that Muslim Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang province are in re-education camps and used as slaves to pick the cotton that goes into American T-shirts. If it's true or not, at this time one of the most popular and financially successful entertainers in China is a Muslim Uyghur from Xinjiang, Dilraba Dilmurat.

  

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