{"id":187830,"date":"2021-03-03T06:29:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187830"},"modified":"2021-03-03T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:49:23","slug":"senator-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-confronting-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-confronting-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Urges Biden Administration to Keep Confronting China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenator-urges-biden-administration-to-keep-confronting-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) warned that the United States cannot \u201cbackslide\u201d on China under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina has been aggressive and predatory from a military standpoint, from a diplomatic standpoint, and from an economic standpoint for so many years,\u201d said Hagerty in a recent interview with The Epoch Times\u2019 sister company NTD at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the senator pointed to Beijing\u2019s recent aggression in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> and against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>, the latter being a key U.S. ally in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has \u201cused the void of this movement into the Biden administration as an opportunity to step up their aggression,\u201d Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cChina understands a strong America. We cannot be weak at this point. And we certainly can\u2019t backslide right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since President Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, China has escalated its war-mongering toward Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing claims as a part of its territory. In late January, a Chinese military official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-voices-support-for-taiwan-after-beijing-threatens-war_3676667.html\">threatened<\/a> war against the island.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has also sent military planes into Taiwan\u2019s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on a nearly daily basis since the start of this year. Most recently, on March 2 a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoNDefense\/status\/1366722948539686913\">entered<\/a> southwestern Taiwan\u2019s ADIZ, according to Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, China threw its economic weight at Taiwan by abruptly banning imports of Taiwanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/taiwan-urges-people-to-eat-more-pineapples-after-china-ban_3712599.html\">pineapple<\/a>, saying there were \u201charmful creatures\u201d in the fruit. According to Taiwan government data, Taiwan exported more than 90 percent of its pineapple to China in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 28, the Hong Kong government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/dozens-of-leading-hong-kong-dissidents-charged-with-subversion-in-major-crackdown_3714253.html\">charged<\/a> 47 opposition figures for subversion under the pro-Beijing national security law. The move has since drawn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/international-outcry-after-47-opposition-figures-in-hong-kong-charged-under-national-security-law_3715169.html\">international outcry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hagerty also warned about China\u2019s continued militarization of islands in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re building artificial islands along the busiest sea lanes in the world. They\u2019re putting themselves in a position to control trade to affect trade in a way that could be very nefarious for the region,\u201d Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p>Islands, reefs, and rocks in the South China Sea are claimed by a number of countries in the region, including China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3700379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/island-of-Spratlys-South-China-Sea-1200x795-1.jpg\" alt=\"island of Spratlys in the South China Sea\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of uninhabited island of Spratlys in the disputed South China Sea, on April 21, 2017. (Erik De Castro\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese regime has refused to recognize a United Nations ruling at the Hague in 2016 that concluded Beijing\u2019s territorial claims in the South China Sea were invalid. In July last year, the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-officially-rejects-most-of-beijings-claims-in-south-china-sea-condemns-bullying-tactics-to-control-region_3423008.html\">formally rejected<\/a> Beijing\u2019s South China Sea claims, calling them \u201ccompletely unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty applauded the Trump administration for pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party diplomatically, economically, and militarily. Former U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> imposed tariffs on billions of Chinese products in an effort to confront China\u2019s unfair trade practices, including its massive government subsidies to Chinese companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe significantly increased our [military] presence [in Japan] during my tenure as ambassador in that region,\u201d said Hagerty, who was U.S. ambassador to Japan from August 2017 to July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatically, Hagerty praised Trump for his decision to withdraw the United States from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-world-health-organization\">World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe saw the influence that China has on the WHO. All they were doing was touting Chinese Communist Party talking points,\u201d Hagerty explained.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO initially parroted Beijing\u2019s claim that the virus was not contagious, dismissing an email warning from Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>A scientific paper published last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/new-study-reveals-beijings-coverup-about-the-ccp-virus-transmissibility_3421238.html\">concluded<\/a> that Beijing concealed the virus\u2019s transmissibility for at least three weeks before publicly acknowledging that the virus was contagious on Jan. 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of his inauguration, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-mandates-masks-rejoins-paris-climate-accord-among-other-executive-actions-on-first-day-in-office_3665064.html\">signed<\/a> several executive orders, one of which halted the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot believe that the Biden administration would just go back into the World Health Organization and completely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-will-contribute-200-million-to-world-health-organization-blinken_3700557.html\">refund<\/a> them again, without holding that organization accountable, without looking at the Chinese influence there,\u201d Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty said he will continue to pressure the Biden administration to retain the U.S. military presence in Asia, and to confront China economically \u201cin a way that maintains American strength and really stands up for the American worker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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