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On the Eve of Impeachment Vote, Some in GOP Drop Trump Lisa Hagen © (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images) UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., conducts a news conference on the China Task Force report in the Capitols Rayburn Room on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. The report outlines bipartisan action to combat threats from China. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The House is gearing up for its historic vote...

The United States Has Repeatedly Impinged On Chinas Vital Interests "In the event of an all-out confrontation between China and the United States, the United States would find itself at a great strategic disadvantage. It will be bound to pay a high economic, political, and security cost which could lead to a complete breakdown of the hegemony of the United States in the world. "The idea that America is peerless under heaven has long been ingrained in some Americans. Therefore, in the face of th...

Pompeo demands China release journalist who documented Wuhan coronavirus outbreak Print this article Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded Chinese Communist Party release Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who was sentenced to four years in prison this week for her reporting on the ground in Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020. The top U.S. diplomat joined a chorus of other officials condemning the Chinese government for silencing Zhang, as the federal government, Congress...

For nearly 250 years, free and fair elections have been a hallmark of American democracy. In their pursuit to counter a king’s oppressive tyranny, our nation’s founders forged a representative government that gave power not to an elite monarch, but to the people. Since the founding of our nation, American government has reflected the will of the people. However, government “of, by, and for the people” is possible only as long as Americans have faith in the electoral system. ...

Primer: On September 25, 2015, during CCP General Secretary Xi’s state visit to the United States, President Obama and Xi gave remarks to the press in the White House Rose Garden. The two leaders announced that they had agreed “neither the U.S. nor the Chinese government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information for commercial advantage.” Xi also pledged that “China does not intend t...

Dems Water Down China Provisions in Defense Bill GOP accuses Pelosi of gutting enforcement against Chinese influence on campus Getty Images December 18, 2020 4:59 AM House Democrats stripped down an anti-China bill that unanimously passed in the Senate by removing language reining in Chinese government influence on U.S. campuses. The Senates National Defense Authorization Act included a provision that authorized the Department of Education to withhold funding from U.S. universities that ...

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Liz Cheney is one of the 17 GOP members who sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding the removal of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from the Intelligence Committee over his alleged ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative. Cheney, R-Wyo., blasted Pelosi, D-Calif., for not taking action against Swalwell and said he represented "a national security hazard." "We watched [Pelosi] again and again treat her responsibility over the Intelligence...

The revelation that an alleged Chinese spy placed at least one intern in the Washington, D.C., office of California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell has House party leaders taking sides on whether congressional interns should be better vetted before working for lawmakers.