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New China committee debuts with eye on major policy shifts

continued from Front She was arrested in the
1990s after serving as an
“We’re doing some level- interpreter to a leading dis-
setting here: Why should sident who had urged the
someone care about the U.S. to condition trade on
threat posed by the CCP?” China’s human rights per-
Gallagher said. “Or to put formance. She spent nine
it differently, what did we months in detention be-
get wrong about the Chi- fore being handed a two-
nese Communist Party and and-half year sentence for
what do we need to get “disturbing social order”
right about it so as to have and sent to a labor camp,
a more successful and en- where she said authorities
during strategy going for- organized other inmates to
ward?” beat her up.
So far, Gallagher appears “In the U.S., we need to
to have Democratic buy- face the fact that we have
in and support. The vote helped feed the baby
to create the committee dragon of the CCP until it
was bipartisan, 365-65. has grown into what it now
Opponents on the Demo- is,” she said in prepared
cratic side largely voiced remarks provided to The
the concern that the com- Associated Press. “Since
mittee could stir an even Chairman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., center, leads the GOP’s newly-formed House Select Committee the 1990s, U.S. companies
greater rise in anti-Asian on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as the have enriched themselves
panel adopts its rules ahead of a primetime hearing later tonight, at the Capitol in Washington,
hate crimes. Gallagher said Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. by exploiting cheap labor
he is committed to ensuring Associated Press in China and have, in the
the focus is on the Chinese process, also enriched the
Communist Party, not on Krishnamoorthi said. mer advisers to President was welcomed into inter- CCP.”
the people of China. Rep. Ro Khanna of Cali- Donald Trump: Matthew national systems like the The reaction to a suspect-
“We want to lead with fornia, another Democrat Pottinger, the deputy na- World Trade Organization. ed Chinese spy balloon in
that sort of human rights on the committee, said he tional security adviser who He has recommend the U.S. the U.S. earlier this month
focused, values-focused expects Gallagher will set a resigned immediately after not engage in trade or in- demonstrates the political
agenda,” Gallagher said. sobering tone. the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrec- vestment that transfers sen- tightrope that lawmak-
“And that’s an area of uni- “The hope is that Congress tion at the U.S. Capitol; and sitive technology the CCP ers will walk to prevent the
ty, too, for a lot of Demo- can still rise to a genera- H.R. McMaster, who was can use to gain military committee from becoming
crats and Republicans.” tional challenge, and that national security adviser and economic advantag- a dividing force rather than
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, is getting our China policy from February 2017 to April es. He also has testified the a uniting one. Republicans
D-Ill., the ranking Democrat correct,” Khanna said. 2018. U.S. should not do business were highly critical of the
on the committee, said the “And there are areas that McMaster is no stranger to in China in a way that helps Biden administration for
CCP is counting on law- can be bipartisan, from testifying about the threats the CCP stifle freedom and not shooting down the bal-
makers to be “fractious, bringing good jobs back to he sees from China. He has perfect its technology-en- loon days earlier than it did,
divided, partisan and we making sure we’re deter- warned Congress that the abled police state. while Democrats defended
have to do the opposite.” ring any invasion in the Tai- U.S. clung too long to the Tong Yi, a Chinese human Biden and stressed that he
“We have no choice but wan Strait.” idea that China would lib- rights advocate, will am- followed the military’s rec-
to rise to the challenge at The witnesses for Tuesday’s eralize its economy and plify those concerns at the ommendation on when to
this point. It’s that serious,” hearing includes two for- form of governance as it hearing. take it down. q

Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme

Court majority opinion

ity opinion for the Supreme October to late April. But in Jackson wrote her first dis-
Court. January and February, for senting opinion in Novem-
The opinion released Tues- example, the court has only ber, in support of a death
day in a dispute between seven argued cases each row inmate from Ohio who
states over unclaimed month, meaning there are failed to win Supreme Court
money is one of roughly a not enough to go around. review of his case.
half dozen she is expected Jackson joined the high Lawyers for the inmate,
to write by the time the court on June 30, following Davel Chinn, argued that
court finishes its work for the retirement of Justice the state suppressed evi-
the summer, usually in late Stephen Breyer. dence that might have al-
June. The decision was Jackson, 52, is the first tered the outcome of his
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and
members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait unanimous, though all the Black woman to serve as trial.
following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in justices didn't join the whole a justice and just the third Jackson wrote that she
Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. opinion. Black person on the court. would have ordered lower
Associated Press Each justice typically writes The others are Justice Clar- courts to take another look
at least one opinion from ence Thomas, the longest- at the case.
By MARK SHERMAN and WASHINGTON (AP) — Jus- the seven separate two- serving among the nine jus- Only Justice Sonia Soto-
JESSICA GRESKO tice Ketanji Brown Jackson week arguments sessions tices, and the late Justice mayor joined Jackson's
Associated Press has written her first major- the court holds from early Thurgood Marshall. opinion.q