The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party held its first hearing this week. In interviews and joint statements Chair Mike Gallagher, a Republican and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat, have made it clear they are determined to make this committee a bipartisan project.
Untangling the Chinese Knot
We shouldn’t glibly conflate China’s economic challenge with its military-strategic threat.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.)
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks to the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.)



