House Conservatives to Introduce Anti-China Bill as Contrast to Weak Senate-Passed Measure by MATTHEW BOYLE for Breitbart
House conservatives in the Republican Study Committee (RSC) will introduce a beefed up plan to counter the Chinese Communist Party meant to serve as a contrast to a much weaker Senate-passed plan, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The office of RSC chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) provided the bill text and detailed analysis of the forthcoming plan, titled the Countering Communist China Act, ahead of its public release. The plan is a contrast to a Senate-passed bill, originally called the Endless Frontier Act but renamed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, which passed the Democrat-controlled upper chamber of Congress several weeks ago with 68 votes despite serious concerns it would only help the Chinese Communist Party.while its backers said it would counter China. Conservatives are under no illusion that their bill would stand any chance in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives or U.S. Senate, but thet are introducing it to show how weak the Democrat bill is and contrast it with how a true anti-China plan should be structured policy-wise, presumably so when Republicans are back in the majority they can promote these ideas rather than the weak Democrat ones.
“Democrats’ China spending bills fall short, so that’s why House conservatives are introducing our own China bill as a benchmark for how Congress should address the China threat,” Banks said in a statement provided to Breitbart News exclusively. “Their bill places a burden on taxpayers and lets China off easy, but our bill protects taxpayers and holds the Chinese Communist Party accountable.”
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The RSC bill would, aides involved in its crafting told Breitbart News, first and foremost target Chinese Communist Party influence operations inside the United States—something the Senate bill does not do. It would ban the United Work Development Front, China’s political operations arm, from accessing American financial institutions and prohibit American companies that receive federal subsidies from expanding business development in China or affiliating their businesses with entities that do business with the Chinese military. It would also prohibit the National Science Foundation from awarding grants to universities that engage in programs or with entities with Chinese Communist Party ties, and establish sanctions on Chinese companies for stealing U.S. intellectual property and prohibit said Chinese companies from ever again having any transactions with U.S. persons.
