Senate Needs To Keep Its Eye on the China Challenge, Not Political Spending Priorities
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...