Exclusive: Senate Foreign Relations Committee releases bombshell report bashing Biden-Harris administration, European allies for complacency on China
Sen. Jim Risch laid out the case against the Biden-Harris administration's China policy in an extensive report obtained first by the Washington Reporter.
The current Democratic administration has not taken seriously threats posed by the Chinese Community Party (CCP), a bombshell 160-page report authored by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, alleges.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has made grand announcements, but repeatedly failed to implement them,” the report, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China reads. “Worse, the administration continues to pursue counterproductive policies that weaken U.S. and allied competitiveness against China.”
The report, authored by Sen. Jim Risch (R., Idaho), the SFRC’s ranking Republican, breaks down President Joe Biden’s record on a litany of China-related issues, giving the administration, at best, a C in “addressing the implications of China’s strategic investments.” Risch, however, gave the Biden-Harris administration D or D- ratings on every other topic, which included “shaping the future of technology,” growing U.S.-Europe cooperation in Africa and in the Indo-Pacific, “defending the international trading system,” and more.
On the issue of climate change, Risch said that the administration’s “embrace” of China “provides economic opportunities for China while giving it a pass on its environmental mismanagement. At the same time, the administration insists on pursuing policies that hurt the U.S. energy industry as well as European and Asian partners.”
The report also issued several guidelines for future China policy, which include reversing the liquefied natural gas export ban, negotiating a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom, curbing America’s prioritization of “climate change to the detriment of all other U.S. strategic interests,” and stopping the implementation of “the Inflation Reduction Act in ways that increase[s] U.S. reliance on China for critical minerals.”
America’s European allies are, along with the Biden-Harris administration,“executing [an] ideologically-driven climate agenda” at the expense of “prioritizing U.S. economic strength…the European Union’s technology laws, including the Digital Markets Act, discriminate against American companies while leaving Chinese technology champions largely untouched.”
In critical sectors, American allies are sabotaging America’s ability to compete with China, the report said. “The European Union’s technology laws, including the Digital Markets Act, discriminate against American companies while leaving Chinese technology champions largely untouched.” Beyond the European Union, another agency that China has been able to exploit, Risch warns, is the United Nations, which “remains China’s primary arena for influencing the international system.”
Risch’s report comes shortly before Democrats kick off their party’s convention in Chicago, ensuring that the GOP will continue to prioritize China on the campaign trail in the weeks ahead.
Read the full report HERE.
