Author: Patricia Zenger
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Gallagher to lead new U.S. House China select committee
WASHINGTON • Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher was named on Thursday to lead a select committee being created in the U.S. House of Representatives to focus on economic and security competition with China. Gallagher, a former Marine counterintelligence officer who has served on the House Armed Services Committee, has been a vocal critic of China’s…
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Pelosi: U.S. cannot allow China’s ‘new normal’ over Taiwan
WASHINGTON • House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the United States could not allow China to normalize the new level of pressure on Taiwan it asserted with days of military drills following her visit to the Chinese-claimed island. “What we saw with China is that they were trying to establish sort of…