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.U.S. worries about Chinas invasion of Taiwan,

"Time is not on our side"? 

美國憂慮中國侵掠台灣「時間不在我們這邊」? 

美國與中國共產黨戰略競爭特別委員會.

Special Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Communist Party of China.

20230228日舉行首場聽證會,議員和證人分別談到中國共產黨對美國各方面的挑戰,包括盜竊智慧財產權以發展自身實力,以及投資軍力準備侵略台灣。

主席蓋拉格開場時說,戰略競爭是現代的生存之戰,是對於自由與願景的追求,國會雖然分裂,但必須在這個問題上團結起來,必須懷抱急迫感採取行動。

民主黨首席議員克利什納穆希提到中共對維吾爾族實施種族滅絕,威脅台灣等鄰國,徹底破壞美國經濟與貿易,意在「東升西降」,在未來的戰略領域取代美國和其他競爭對手。

前國安顧問麥馬斯特做證時,先後有兩名抗議者從聽眾席站起,高舉「中國不是我們的敵人」,「停止仇恨亞裔」等標語,對委員會針對中國表示不滿,被請離場,美國製造業聯盟（ＡＡＭ）主席保羅說,美國容許言論自由,因此他們可以表達意見,中國沒這種空間,還會壓制這些聲音。

A protester disrupts the first hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party as (L-R) Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, human rights activist Tong Yi, and Lt. Gen. H.R. McCaster (Ret.) testify, at the Cannon House Office Building on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC.

New China committee debuts, warns of ‘existential struggle’.

Lawmakers sought to demonstrate unity and the panel’s top Democrat made clear that he doesn’t want a “clash of civilizations” but a durable peace.

A special House committee dedicated to countering China began its work Tuesday with a prime-time hearing in which the panel’s chairman called on lawmakers to act with urgency and framed the competition between the U.S. and China as “an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century.”

While some critics have expressed concern the hearings could escalate U.S.-Chinese tensions, lawmakers sought to demonstrate unity and the panel’s top Democrat made clear that he doesn’t want a “clash of civilizations” but a durable peace.

Tensions between the U.S. and China have been rising for years, with both countries enacting retaliatory tariffs on an array of imports during President Donald Trump’s time in office. China’s opaque response to the COVID-19 pandemic, its aggression toward Taiwan and the recent flight of a possible spy balloon over the U.S. have fueled lawmakers’ desire to do more to counter the Chinese government. The new Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is expected to be at the center of many of their efforts over the next two years.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., opened the hearing with a call for action. Addressing the difficulty of finding common ground on China-focused legislation, he said the Chinese government has found friends on Wall Street and in lobbyists on Washington’s K Street who are ready to oppose the committee’s efforts.“Time is not on our side. Just because this Congress is divided, we cannot afford to waste the next two years lingering in legislative limbo or pandering for the press,” Gallagher said. “We must act with a sense of urgency.”

Gallagher is looking for the committee to shepherd several bills over the finish line during the next two years and issue a set of recommendations on long-term policies. So far, Gallagher appears to have Democratic buy-in and support. The vote to create the committee was bipartisan, 365-65.

Opponents on the Democratic side largely voiced the concern that the committee could stir an even greater rise in anti-Asian hate crimes. Gallagher said he is committed to ensuring the focus is on the Chinese Communist Party, not on the people of China.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the ranking Democrat on the committee, said both Republicans and Democrats have underestimated the Chinese Communist Party. He said its goal is to pursue economic and trade policies that undermine the U.S. economy.

“We do not want a war with the (People’s Republic of China), not a cold war, not a hot war,” Krishnamoorthi said. “We don’t want a clash of civilizations. But we seek a durable peace and that is why we have to deter aggression.”The hearing was interrupted by two protesters, one saying, “this committee is about saber rattling, it’s not about peace.” Both were ushered out by police.

The witnesses for Tuesday’s hearing included two former advisers to Trump: Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser who resigned immediately after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; and H.R. McMaster, who was national security adviser from February 2017 to April 2018.McMaster and Pottinger delivered sweeping assessments of what they said was the challenge the United States was facing from China. That ranged from combatting TikTok’s influence on Americans’ online discourse and reducing China’s dominance over supply chains to hardening Taiwan to make it impossible for China’s military to take.

Pottinger said the main emphasis of his testimony was to open people’s eyes to how the U.S. has become too complacent. “Before we can seize the initiative we have to react to the fact that our national interest has been deeply undermined over the course of the last quarter century,” he said.

Tong Yi, a Chinese human rights advocate, amplified human rights concerns at the hearing. She was arrested in the 1990s after serving as an interpreter to a leading dissident who had urged the U.S. to condition trade on China’s human rights performance. She spent nine months in detention before being handed a two-and-half year sentence for “disturbing social order” and sent to a labor camp, where she said authorities organized other inmates to beat her up.

“In the U.S., we need to face the fact that we have helped feed the baby dragon of the CCP until it has grown into what it now is,” .Scott Paul, president of an alliance formed by some manufacturing companies and the United Steelworkers labor union, testified that “51 years of wishful thinking by American leaders” has failed to alter the dynamic that the CCP represents a “clear and present danger to the American worker, our innovation base, and our national security.”

The hearings come at a time of heightened rivalry and tensions between China and the United States. Both sides — the U.S. and its allies, and China — are consolidating military positions in the Indo-Pacific in case of any confrontation over self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.

Last summer, Chinese warships and warplanes fired missiles over Taiwan in what were days of intense Chinese military exercises following then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the U.S. ally. President Xi Jinping’s government at the time rejected President Joe Biden’s declarations that his administration had no control over the actions of U.S. lawmakers.

And three weeks ago, the Biden administration used a Sidewinder missile fired by an F-22 to end the journey of what the U.S. says was a giant Chinese surveillance balloon traveling across U.S. territory.Both incidents, especially the balloon, captured american public and political attention, and put debate over how to handle China in the center of U.S. political debate.

“It’s another indication of the negative slide, the downward spiral, in the U.S.-China relationship,” Michael Swaine, a Washington analyst of Chinese security studies, said of Gallagher’s committee. The hearings will add to political pressure on Biden, who has continued to stress a desire for limited dialogue with China, to take a harder line, Swaine said.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he worked with the Democratic leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY., in forming the committee and that the U.S. failures with China are the result of not speaking with “one voice.”

“We need to speak with one voice Republicans and Democrats alike,” McCarthy said. “I think when you look at Gallagher and the work he’s doing with the ranking member, we’re trying to go in lockstep, and I think all of America is pretty much desiring for this.”

Gallagher said he suspects there are at least 10 pieces of legislation that the committee can endorse in a bipartisan fashion. Still, he said the members will be looking for support from McCarthy before backing any legislation. One of the biggest challenges is that jurisdiction over the issues involving China is spread across numerous committees and members of those committees will want a say.

“I think we can play a constructive coordinating function between the committees to ensure that good ideas don’t die just because of some committee’s cracks or they get referred to multiple committees,” .

前副國安顧問博明表示,「北京視美國為主要對手」,冷戰結束蘇聯解體後,美國就是北京的意識形態和軍事威脅,白紙運動凸顯中共害怕中國人民,北京害怕示威,害怕民主與自由力量。

國際戰略專家分析認為美國擅長使用兩手策略,企圖分化中國共產黨,換句話說就是挑撥離間中國共產黨,美國及美國人永遠無法瞭解中國共產黨的戰略意圖,這樣一來美國共產黨也就是說城門失火,殃及池魚,美國共產黨被美國聯邦憲法控制不得參政,美國各州僅有選舉美國總統得予推出選舉人,陪伴共和黨及民主黨玩弄選舉遊戲,美國聯邦政府鄙視美國共產黨的存在..

.COMMITTEE RESOLUTION NO. 1 — Resolved, That the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, adopt the select committee rules for the 118th Congress, which are stated in the copy distributed to each Member. 

Rule I. General Provisions (a) Applicability of House Rules. The provisions of H. Res. 11 (118th Cong.), which established the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (“Select Committee” or “Committee”), are hereby incorporated by reference. Nothing herein shall be construed as superseding any provision of that title. The Rules of the House of Representatives shall apply to the Committee to the extent provided by that resolution. (b) Applicability of Certain Authorities. Pursuant to H. Res. 11 Section 1(c)(3) (118th Cong.), the Committee has the authorities and responsibilities of, and shall be subject to the same limitations and restrictions as, a standing committee of the House, including those authorities and responsibilities delegated to the Committee pursuant to H. Res. 5 Section 3(k) (118th Cong.). (c) Applicability of Certain Regulations. The regulations issued by the House Committee on Rules of the 118th Congress entitled Regulations for the Remote Participation of Committee Witnesses and Regulations for the Use of Deposition Authority (both attached) are hereby incorporated by reference. (d) Publication. The Committee rules shall be made publicly available in electronic form and published in the Congressional Record not later than 60 days after the Committee adopts its rules..................................美國的國會內部意見分歧,各個政黨的政客考慮自身與中國的利益關係,尤其是與中國共產黨打交道,錯綜複雜,中國共產黨政治運作模式,"1人專政,集體領導"因為自從秦始皇統一中國後的歷代歷朝都遵守."1人專政,集體領導",的政治運作,美國牛仔不瞭解中華文化博大精深,美國永遠無法戰勝中國人的思維,更何況悠久的歷史文明及文化,美國人至今尚未"開化",換句話說就是玩弄現代化武器的牛仔,在全球胡搞,瞎搞,亂七八糟的亂搞,最終失敗,尤其是以台灣為誘餌,促使中國以武力攻打台灣,製造機會好讓美國出兵干涉,美國人的想法過於天真浪漫,「時間不在我們這邊」Time is not on our side",的確如此因為整體局勢,由中國主導,而不是美國牛仔. 

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