The House of Representatives took on the enormous task of adopting 25 legislation last week that addressed Chinese interference in American technology and the economy.
Drones, subpar Chinese network routers, batteries, and federal biotech contracts with Chinese companies were all targeted during this inaugural “China Week”.
Screaming “House indulges in Mad Hatter’s Tea Party,” state-run China Daily bemoaned “40 years of mutually beneficial relationships” on Thursday. Really?
The head of the House Select Committee on China, Representative John Moolenaar, R-Mich., stated it succinctly. We’re going to draw a line in the sand this week. “This far, and no further, the U.S. Congress will tell Xi Jinping with one voice,” he declared.
Legislators clamp down on Chinese influence in US government technology and issue a potentially.
If only everything were that easy. We are as vulnerable to China as the heads of a hydra. Hit one, and others appear.
Greek mythology’s hero Hercules battles the nine-headed snake-dragon creature known as the Hydra. Hercules’ duty is not an easy one; for the moment he cuts off one head, two grow back in its place. Hercules was the nepotistic baby son of Zeus, the supreme god, and he inherited the Herculean responsibilities because of his intricate death and sexual past.
