The House's new committee on the U.S. and China will hold its first hearing in prime time on Tuesday night, focusing on the “overall threat” of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
The hearing also comes days after The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes
in China, though other U.S. agencies say the virus could have first originated from natural exposure to an infected animal.Gallagher told reporters his committee will play a role in "teasing out what the [Chinese government] cover up of COVID origin tells us about the nature of the regime and why it can't be trusted to operate as a responsible stakeholder in the international system in general and at the World Health Organization in particular.
Chinese officials have adamantly denied the virus leaked from one of their labs, though they have also been criticized for not cooperating with investigations into the pandemic's origins. Rep. Mike Gallagher walks to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 7, 2023.Primarily, Gallagher said, his committee's work will focus on three areas of U.S.-China relations: military, human rights and the economy. In one of the committee's first bipartisan actions, Gallagher and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., reintroduced their legislation seeking to effectively ban TikTok on all devices in the U.S.
Gallagher also said he was open to calling CEOs of major American companies to testify on their dealings in China.
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