U.S. Urged to Do More Against Rising Threat of Assertive China
- China’s leaders sees U.S. values as existential threat: report
- Panel was established by Congress to highlight China’s threats
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The U.S. should ratchet up its demands of China to include equal access for companies and media, stricter monitoring of Beijing’s activities at the United Nations and preventive action to safeguard American interests in technology and finance, a bipartisan panel told Congress on Tuesday.
A 575-page report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission -- created by Congress to track and anticipate threats from China -- characterized the world’s second-largest economy as a threat to the current international order that has American values at its core. It added China’s leaders view those values as a barrier to the country’s external ambitions and an existential threat to their rule.