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Senator presses administration on overdue China strategy; State Department pledges delivery
Summary
An unidentified senator told a hearing the congressionally mandated comprehensive China strategy is overdue and warned China's economic and geopolitical tactics threaten U.S. interests; a State Department official promised the administration will deliver the strategy and continue consultations with outside experts.
An unidentified senator pressed a State Department official on the administration's progress toward a congressionally required, comprehensive China strategy, saying the plan was due under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and noting the administration had missed the statutory timeline.
The senator said the United States faces "the critical foreign policy challenge ... in China's emergence as a great power, a nation which is not playing by the rules," and argued that U.S. spending for the Indo-Pacific should be guided by a detailed strategy rather than speeches of principle. He said his and Chairman Menendez's legislation requiring a comprehensive China strategy became law in the NDAA and that…
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