House Panel Advances China Bill Over Republican Objections
- Republicans call it too climate focused, too easy on China
- House bill aimed at bolstering U.S. in competition with China
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill to counter China along a party line vote of 26-20 on Thursday as Republicans criticized the measure as too focused on climate change and too soft on Beijing.
It was a rare instance of discord amid an emerging consensus in Congress that the U.S. should take a harder line against China and comes several weeks after the Senate passed a $250 billion package of legislation with bipartisan support to bolster domestic research and development to better compete with the world’s second-biggest economy.