Senate Needs To Keep Its Eye on the China Challenge, Not Political Spending Priorities Walter Lohman is director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. It has been a few months in coming, but the U.S. Senate is about to debate comprehensive legislation on how to respond to China. It’s a welcome development – as long as it’s really about strategic competition, and not a package of mostly unrelated government giveaways. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered no assurances this afternoon when he laid out a brief argument for the package on the Senate floor. He almost forgot to mention China!