Pelosi is making a last ditch effort to prioritize Chinese businesses over American businesses better known as a trojan horse. What a scum bag!
Sentinel Nation,
This week Ryan Walker, Director of Government Relations at Heritage Action joined us to talk China policy. The Beijing Olympics begin this week, and House Democrats unveiled a new bill that – in little surprise – does more to advance Left-wing priorities than compete with China.
Biden’s Olympic Fumble
The Biden administration has finally announced it will diplomatically boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. After a series of fumbles and missed opportunities, a unilateral boycott was a bare minimum response. There was much more Biden could have done to hold Beijing accountable. While the administration’s response has been a failure, there are four things that the U.S. can do:Expand the diplomatic boycott. It’s not too late for the Biden administration to organize a broad diplomatic coalition to boycott alongside the U.S. This would help increase the pressure on China, rather than simply going alone.
American athletes can speak out. They have the opportunity to not only raise awareness about persecution of Chinese athletes, but also the Chinese people.
Journalists can cover China’s abuses, and expose the human rights atrocities being committed by the Chinese government.
Businesses can pull their sponsorships in protest. This would make the Olympic Games less profitable for the International Olympic Committee and Beijing.
>> Read more from The Heritage Foundation.
Pelosi’s Trojan China Bill
Last week the House introduced a bill called the “America COMPETES Act” (H.R. 4521). Touted as a bill that will help the U.S. compete against China, the reality couldn’t be any further from the truth. This 2,900 page bill is a trojan horse, loaded with Left-wing priorities, and provisions that would prioritize China over American companies and interests.
As reported last night in Axios news, this “China Bill” is so weak on holding China’s totalitarian government accountable, some House Democrats are now trying to spin and sell it to constituents as a “jobs bill.”
Here are some of the bill’s many flawed provisions:
Promotes Chinese energy over American energy. Creates a $3 billion solar manufacturing program that doubles down on the Democrats’ failed policies of using government subsidies to promote unreliable, weather-dependent renewable energy over more reliable energy sources. This program will directly benefit China because of its dominance in the supply chain of materials needed to manufacture renewable energy. At the same time, the Biden administration continues to kill domestic mining projects and block oil and gas leasing sales.
Creates a green climate slush fund. Gives $8 billion to the unaccountable “green climate” slush fund at the UN, which has awarded $100 million to China, without safeguards to stop further taxpayer funds from subsidizing the Chinese Communist Party or funding solar panels and batteries tainted by slave labor and genocide.
Creates Climate Change Officers. It creates Climate Change Officers at potentially every U.S. embassy, consulate, and diplomatic mission abroad responsible for focusing U.S. international efforts on climate change policy and programming. The bill mentions coral reefs more times than China, and mentions climate change more than twice as often as national security. This bill is more a climate change bill than a China bill.
Ignores human rights abuses. It tries to appease China by omitting the word “genocide” from provisions on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, despite the House having voted twice to call it genocide.
Hurts small businesses. It would add burdensome Davis-Bacon requirements, giving unions unfair advantages over small businesses and independent workers. These requirements will significantly jeopardize our ability to compete with China.
Includes critical race theory policies. Provides $5 million to create a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation and direct the NSF to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in the technology sector.
Allows the CCP to buy visas. It would create a new visa program that would allow Chinese investors (which is synonymous with the Chinese government) to purchase visas, start a company in the U.S., and then import workers from China with additional visas. While America is a land of opportunity and entrepreneurship – there is little oversight to ensure protection of American national security interests. Not to mention, Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has a history of favoritism and poor judgment when it comes to granting visas.
The Senate voted on a China bill last June called the Endless Frontiers Act. While the bill fell short in many ways, the “America COMPETES Act” is far worse. Sentinels should remind the 18 Republicans in the Senate who voted for the Endless Frontiers Act that negotiations on the America COMPETES Act are only going further leftward.
Republicans serious about countering China should hold strong in opposition to both, and insist on legislation more directly related to China, or resume negotiations when they have more favorable majorities in the House and Senate.
>> Take Action: Call your representative and Senators, and urge them to oppose the “America COMPETES Act.” Congress should pass legislation that actually counters the Chinese Communist Party and protects American interests.
Thank you, Janae Stracke
Director of Grassroots Heritage Action
