Rep. Banks Leads Republican Study Committee in Large-Scale Campaign to Counter CCP
From The Epoch Times BY February 17, 2021 Updated: February 18, 2021
Natalie’s Commentary: If we don’t stop China who will? That’s the six million dollar question but this time the stakes couldn’t be any higher. While all the big tech and social media companies continue to do exactly what China wants they have no logical explanation for colluding and conspiraing with the world’s worst enemy.
There seems to be a pattern the CEOs of social media and big tech companies who perfectly understand there has been no penalty or consequences for not only invading our most personal and private data but stealing everything that makes their companies much more powerful and richer and users much more weaker by censoring our freedom of speech and what these companies define as inappropriate; pandering to the ideology of the extreme left. Most are Democrats in high powerful positions trying to run a country where they have absolutely no respect for Americans. Many rich elitists are also convinced that China’s authoritarian communist regime won’t turn their backs on them eventually; it’s the inedible that should now alarm every American. To the CCP every American is expendable. This you count on as the absolute truth. ~ Natalie
For the first time in its history, the Republican Study Committee (RSC)—the largest conservative caucus on Capitol Hill—will make countering the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a key part of its agenda under the leadership of its newly elected chairman, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).
As part of this large-scale effort, Banks said that he and others in the House committee will introduce more than 20 bills this week alone dedicated to confronting the China threat and holding the Biden administration accountable for weak policies on China.
The legislative barrage will touch upon a wide range of issues broadly focused on pushing back against the CCP’s influence in the United States.
“We’ve made countering communist China a platform of the RSC for the first time, under my leadership,” Banks told The Epoch Times. “It deserves our attention, and as the largest caucus, our members understand this is the greatest threat that we face and that we have to confront it.”
The focus on the CCP is “uniformly supported within the caucus,” said Banks. During the 116th Congress, there were 148 members of the committee, which accounted for nearly 75 percent of Republicans.
Banks said the caucus is in some ways an “internal policy think tank within the Republican Conference” that is dedicated to upholding conservative principles.
As part of this agenda, there will be full-time staff in the RSC devoted solely to this effort. The committee will also bring in leading think-tank experts to help craft policy solutions, according to Banks.
Banks is introducing a number of measures including the “Stop Funding the PLA Act,” which will protect U.S. investments from flowing to China’s military-industrial base. Other RCS members are introducing legislation that would stop Biden from removing Huawei from the Commerce Department’s entity list and legislation to stop Biden from lifting sanctions on People’s Liberation Army-linked firms.
“China’s objective is to dominate the United States of America economically and militarily, to become the hegemonic power of the entire world, and to put the United States of America under its thumb,” the congressman said. “And for years, they’ve been steadily marching towards that end goal.”