GOP announces head of committee to focus on threat from China trends now

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has selected Representative Mike Gallagher to lead efforts by the newly formed Select Committee on China to crackdown on the rising aggression from Beijing.

'The greatest threat to the United States is the Chinese Communist Party,' Gallagher wrote in a statement on the new post. 'The CCP continues to commit genocide, obscure the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, steal hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American intellectual property, and threaten Taiwan.'

The new House Committee on China, headed by the Wisconsin Republican, will start when the new Congress is sworn next month and Republicans take a majority.

The GOP has been calling for more focus on China as a rising threat on the world stage, and specifically to the U.S.