Trade relations between China and the United States have always been a sensitive issue for the latter country, and on this occasion, members of the House Select Committee on China – a bipartisan delegation of the US House of Representatives tasked with monitoring economic competition between Both nations to investigate — said Congress must legislate barriers to U.S. investments in Chinese companies, including artificial intelligence.
“It is up to Congress to ensure that American money does not fund the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) key technological ambitions, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing and semiconductors, but also biotechnology, directed energy, hypersonics, advanced manufacturing,” space technologies… everything “What has to do with the military and industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China,” said Mike Gallagher, chairman of the special committee responsible for the issue.
“If the Chinese Communist Party moves against Taiwan, it would lead to a catastrophic war, a global depression and the loss of tens of thousands of lives everywhere. “We must prevent that,” Raja Krishnamoorthi, the other senior member of the committee, said in a statement Interview with CNBC.
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However, the work of the House Select Committee on China does not date back to this week. A few days ago, it issued its first subpoena to a Chinese laboratory in Reedley, California. The information published on the portal Politico, explains that it concerns a facility called Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech Inc., where authorities have found serious operational violations, including the storage of serious infections such as chlamydia, E. coli, human herpes, HIV and Covid strains. Another discovery was a box containing more than a thousand rats, including some dead ones, but no further information was given about the animals’ condition.
Such events have raised fears that the site was dedicated to the production of biological weapons. However, since these are Chinese plants where people from that country worked, the details could not be clarified due to the language barrier.
