Congress has taken some strides this year to crack down on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It’s one of the few issues where we see bipartisanship in the legislature. In the most recent case, Congress’s new $900 billion defense budget legislation prohibits the Pentagon from purchasing equipment from blacklisted Chinese biotechnology companies.
And as we near the beginning of a new year, let's take a look back at one vital subject
that Congress is working to address, the threat of the Chinese Communist Party.
NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more on the moves Congress has made
to stand up to the CCP over the past year.
The Chinese Communist Party presents the greatest threat to American values
and American national security in our lifetime.
Congress has taken some strides this year to crack down on the Chinese Communist Party
and it's one of the few issues that we see bipartisanship in the legislature.
In the most recent case, Congress's new $900 billion defense budget legislation
prohibits the Pentagon from purchasing equipment from blacklisted Chinese biotech companies.
Well, there's a lot of things that the American government is using that they
probably should not be using. It varies from everything from Chinese-made routers to
drones, hundreds of maybe even thousands of apps that directly say that they're
sending American data from your phone over to mainland China.
The Pentagon's budget also ramps up defense in the
Pacific region to deter CCP aggression towards Taiwan.
Xi has ordered the People's Liberation Army to be ready to take Taiwan by force by 2027.
That's as the CCP is conducting the largest military buildup since World War II.
And earlier this month, President Trump signed the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act,
requiring the State Department to update its guidelines for U.S. engagements with Taiwan
at least every five years. And it's designed to deepen the relationship between the two countries
in the absence of formal diplomatic relations.
And earlier this year, members of Congress were calling out this hot mic moment
between CCP leader Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin,
where Xi says that one can live to 150 years old through continuous organ transplants.
And that's while the CCP is engaged in forced organ harvesting.
We've heard some horrific stories of this organ transplant and all of this in China,
that they take it from unwilling donors, okay, to put it mildly. And the fact that they were caught
on a hot mic the first I've heard of that is very telling. It tells you what their worldview is,
in contrast to ours, speaking of evil.
To address this, the House passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act and Falun Gong
Protection Act in May, which would put sanctions on anyone facilitating the practice.
In China, there's no waiting list for organs. So what that means is there's a ready supply.
There's a ready supply because they take them from healthy,
living people, particularly these folks that practice the religion of Falun Gong.
Now, these are just a few of the several pieces of legislation that were passed in the House,
but most continue to await action in the Senate.
Reporting from Washington, D.C., Jack Bradley, NTD News.
