"We never gave the Soviet Union the kind of access that we gave to Chinese Communist Party operatives," he told the House select committee on China on Tuesday.
Democrats and Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) highlighted the threat posed by China to the United States and how previous US administrations failed to read China s intent in previous decades.
A special House committee dedicated to countering China began its work Tuesday with a prime-time hearing in which the panel s chairman called on lawmakers to act with urgency and framed the competition between the U.S. and China as "an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century."
Lawmakers at Tuesday's hearing on U.S.-China competition discussed a range of threats, including China's foreign farmland holdings. A South Dakota congressman argues even a small amount is concerning.