{"id":2336393,"date":"2024-09-04T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-calls-for-cold-war-era-tactic-to-counter-china-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:10:08","slug":"gop-senator-calls-for-cold-war-era-tactic-to-counter-china-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-calls-for-cold-war-era-tactic-to-counter-china-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator calls for Cold War-era tactic to counter China &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgop-senator-calls-for-cold-war-era-tactic-to-counter-china-washington-examiner%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=2336393&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>Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is advocating \u2062for the \u2063implementation of a Cold War-era strategy to address the perceived threats\u2063 posed by China. He has proposed that Congress&#8217;s \u2064Joint Economic Committee, which \u2064he \u200dserves on, conduct annual unclassified reports and hold hearings focused on the Chinese economy and its \u200beconomic policies. This approach mirrors tactics previously used against the Soviet Union in the lead-up \u2064to its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200dletter to fellow \u2062committee\u200d members, Schmitt pointed out that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended similar analyses using both open-source and\u2062 classified data. He emphasized\u200c the importance of such reports, as inaccuracies regarding economic conditions,\u2063 particularly by China, could \u2064be detrimental.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt\u2063 has \u2062highlighted several issues he believes are harmful to\u200d the U.S. economy, such as China&#8217;s currency manipulation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">unfair trade practices<\/a>, and\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-partners-at-firm-hired-to-review-lincoln-project-scandal-have-donated-thousands-to-group\/\" title=\"Senior Partners at Firm Hired to \u2018Review\u2019 Lincoln Project Scandal Have Donated Thousands to Group\">intellectual property theft<\/a>. He\u200b suggested that these reports \u2062include public hearings that would examine specific \u200btopics, including the motivations behind Chinese nationals leaving the country, the\u200d impact\u200d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-states-should-protect-religion-as-essential-during-emergencies\/\" title=\"Why States Should Protect Religion As \u2018Essential\u2019 During Emergencies\">state policies<\/a> on the Chinese economy,\u2063 and\u2063 the stability of China&#8217;s housing market.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt&#8217;s initiative\u2062 aims to foster a better understanding of China&#8217;s\u200d economic strategies and their implications for the U.S.\u2064 economy, following a \u200bmodel that \u2062proved useful in the past with the Soviet Union.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">GOP senator calls for Cold War-era tactic to counter China<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1736973\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;<\/strong> Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2439719\/how-sen-eric-schmitts-son-prompted-his-entry-into-political-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Eric Schmitt\">Eric Schmitt<\/a> (R-MO) is pushing for Congress to use a decades-old strategy from the Cold War that was used against the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/1571776\/mikhail-gorbachev-last-leader-of-the-soviet-union-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Soviet Union\">Soviet Union<\/a> to tackle one of America&rsquo;s biggest modern-day foreign threats: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3141293\/former-hochul-aide-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"China\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The senator has asked the leaders of Congress&rsquo;s Joint Economic Committee, which he sits on, to conduct annual unclassified reports and hold hearings about the Chinese economy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bank-failures-add-to-bidens-game-of-economic-whack-a-mole\/\" title=\"Bank failures add to Biden&#039;s game of economic whack-a-mole\">economic policy decisions<\/a>, a tactic the panel used with the Soviet economy before its downfall in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter first seen by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> to Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Joint Economic Committee chairman, and Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ), vice chairman, Schmitt noted that the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission made a similar recommendation to use open-source and classified data and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This analysis and the subsequent reports were especially important, as the Soviet Union stood to gain from lying about its economic condition,&rdquo; Schmitt wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He cited China&rsquo;s &ldquo;currency manipulation, malicious trade practices, and theft of intellectual property&rdquo; as ways the communist country &ldquo;has harmed the American economy and the American worker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The committee did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviet-era studies also included public hearings, which Schmitt said should accompany the China reports. He recommended focusing on three policy areas: Economic factors causing Chinese nationals to leave the country, the effects of state-driven market-fixing policies on the Chinese economy, and the country&rsquo;s housing market.<\/p>\n<p>The committee publishes a yearly bipartisan report on the U.S. economy, in addition to other periodical partisan reports and research conducted separately by each party. The panel&rsquo;s primary task is to &ldquo;review economic conditions and recommend improvements in economic policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) delivers a victory speech, Nov. 8, 2022, in Maryland Heights, Missouri. (AP Photo\/Jeff Roberson, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawmakers have increasingly viewed China as the greatest non-domestic economic threat to the United States, and the GOP-led House last year established the bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan became the first person from his post to visit China since 2016 when he traveled to Beijing last week to meet with the Chinese foreign minister and other high-level officials.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the former Missouri attorney general, Schmitt in 2020 sued China over the COVID-19 pandemic for misleading the public about the disease&rsquo;s origin, which drew the ire of the Chinese government. Schmitt&rsquo;s 2022 Senate primary also centered heavily on China, which he and his GOP opponents said presented military, economic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-each-of-bidens-42-executive-orders-will-actually-do\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s What Each Of Biden\u2019s 42 Executive Orders Will Actually Do\">public health threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The [Joint Economic Committee] should be critical in shaping a whole-of-government approach to the challenges that China&rsquo;s revanchist economic activities present,&rdquo; Schmitt wrote in his letter. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1736973\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1736973\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Senator Advocates for Cold War Strategy to Address China<\/p>\n<p>Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is urging Congress to adopt a long-standing Cold War strategy that was previously employed against the Soviet Union in order to confront one of today&#8217;s significant foreign threats: China. He has requested that the leaders of the Joint Economic Committee, on which he serves, produce annual unclassified reports and hold hearings focused on China&#8217;s economy and its economic policies\u2014similar to what was done with the Soviet economy prior to its collapse in the early 1990s. In a letter addressed to Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), chairman of the committee, and Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ), vice chairman, Schmitt referenced a recommendation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission advocating for both open-source and classified data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt emphasized that such analyses were crucial during the Cold War because misleading information about economic conditions could benefit adversaries like the Soviet Union. He pointed out issues such as &#8220;currency manipulation, harmful trade practices, and intellectual property theft&#8221; as ways in which China has negatively impacted both the American economy and workers.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also suggested that public hearings should accompany these reports on China. He proposed focusing on three specific areas: factors driving Chinese nationals abroad, state-driven market interventions affecting China&#8217;s economy, and developments within China&#8217;s housing market. The Joint Economic Committee typically releases an annual bipartisan report regarding U.S. economic conditions alongside other partisan research conducted by each party.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers increasingly regard China as a major non-domestic economic threat; last year, under GOP leadership, Congress established a bipartisan Select Committee dedicated to addressing strategic competition between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan made his first visit to China since 2016 for discussions with high-ranking officials there. As Missouri&#8217;s former attorney general, Schmitt had previously sued China over its handling of COVID-19 misinformation\u2014a move that drew criticism from Beijing\u2014and he emphasized concerns about military, economic, and public health threats posed by China during his 2022 Senate primary campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter regarding this initiative for comprehensive government action against China&#8217;s aggressive economic activities, Schmitt stated that &#8220;the [Joint Economic Committee] should play a vital role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2336394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eric-schmitt-china.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,34490,6203,4012,4158],"class_list":["post-2336393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-gop","tag-senator","tag-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/eric-schmitt-china.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}