China Select Committee Offers Stakeholders Legislative Opportunities

In an early vote of the 118th Congress, the House of Representatives sent a strong signal that China policy may be one of the few areas where we can expect bipartisan cooperation. The vote (365-65) established the "Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party." Comprised of thirteen Republicans and eleven Democrats, the Select Committee is to investigate and submit policy recommendations on the status of the Chinese Communist Party's economic, technological, and security progress and its competition with the United States.¹ Given this mandate, the Select Committee may be influential in establishing the conditions necessary for legislation to be adopted—or not—by the Congress's other committees of jurisdiction. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will serve as chairman and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) as ranking member of the Select Committee.