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Republican Rep. Scott Perry introduced a bill to reject China’s claims in the South China Sea – Photo: REUTERS
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report released on September 11 shows that tough sentiment toward China prevails in both the US government and Congress.
Scott Kennedy, a senior CSIS adviser, said that while the Donald Trump administration takes countermeasures against China almost every day, the current 116th U.S. National Assembly is no less.
The 116th National Assembly began on January 3, 2019 and will end on January 3, 2021. From the beginning of the mandate until the end of August, the deputies presented a total of 366 bills related to China. This figure does not include the 75 non-binding resolutions presented by the deputies.
Although only 11 of these bills have been passed, number 366 shows that the views of the 116 MPs with China differ from those of the previous classes.
Most of the bill focuses on a single aspect of the US-China relationship or on a specific topic, but there are also a number of bills that cover many sensitive China-related issues.
CSIS statistics show there are 70 trade / investment related laws, 64 supply chain related bills, and 58 national defense / security related bills. Some of the bills that also focus on the more current issue are COVID-19.
Over time, bills introduced began to rise in March 2020, and were strongest in May of this year when the COVID-19 pandemic began to have a major impact in the United States. Republicans from the same party as President Donald Trump are seen as more proactive than Democrats in introducing more bills.
Although impressed by the number of bills, Kennedy said this is just a flash of lightning and believes that the next Congress of the National Assembly will be even more difficult.
“Congressional attention to China will not diminish and will continue to expand in the coming years in terms of both the number of bills presented and passed and the number of hearings,” admitted the Kennedy academic. concentration.
116th United States Congress at swearing-in ceremony last year – AP Screenshot
The bill rejects China’s claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea
There are 44 bills introduced by US lawmakers in an effort to prevent Chinese influence. One of them is HR 7982 introduced by Republican Rep. Scott Perry on August 7.
The detailed content of this bill has only been announced today 1-9. In particular, Perry suggested that the United States reject China’s sovereignty claims for all the disputed archipelagos in the East Sea and East China Sea.
The bill specifies these archipelagos, including Hoang Sa and Truong Sa (of Vietnam), the Senkaku Islands (controlled by Japan), bScarborough Shoal. The bill noted that this rejection is not aimed at resolving the claims of other countries except China, and at the same time calls on the United States to support the maritime capacity of its allies in the East Sea and East China Sea.
The US congressman presented a bill to prevent Chinese ‘hegemony’
