Texas Congressman wants to stop export of technology to China

TEXAS, USA — The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says the Chinese spy balloon despatched a provocative message to the United States and to the President.

And that chairman, one of essentially the most highly effective positions within the U.S. House, simply so occurs to be a Texan, Congressman Michael McCaul.

The Republican from Austin says he’ll ship a transparent message that the transfer was unacceptable.

“What I will be doing as Chairman of Foreign Affairs is stopping the export of technology to China that they then turn around to use in their most advanced weapons systems,” Congressman McCaul stated on Inside Texas Politics. “They steal a lot of our intellectual property. But for god’s sakes, we don’t have to sell the technology to them that they then turn around to point at us.”

The Republican says that technology would come with something within the nationwide safety provide chain.

Chairman McCaul stated he can even maintain categorised briefings the place he’ll get solutions to some of his questions, corresponding to why the U.S. didn’t instantly shoot the balloon down, what information was collected from it and what information was transmitted again to China.

He additionally referenced laws Congress handed final 12 months that returns semiconductor manufacturing again to U.S. soil, as a substitute of international locations weak to China, corresponding to Taiwan.

In reality, the Congressman calls them “national security chips” and he says the identical have to be completed with different delicate imports important to shield the nation.

“That’s a great step forward in what we need to be doing. But we need to be doing that also with rare earth materials, with medical supplies. I hope to be working on those kind of bills in this Congress,” stated the Chairman.

As for the approaching debate over elevating the debt ceiling, Congressman McCaul says he would really like to see discretionary spending capped at 2022 ranges.

Lawmakers should both elevate the debt ceiling so as to repay curiosity on the nation’s money owed and finance federal packages Congress has already permitted, or lower spending.

The Republican Chairman has made clear any cuts or caps mustn’t apply to protection spending.

“It’s hard for me to imagine the federal budget not having some waste in it that we can’t cut. We’re handing down, right now, approaching $32 trillion of debt to our children and grandchildren. I think that’s immoral,” he stated. “And a lot of that debt was accumulated really in the last six years, so this is a bipartisan problem that both parties are responsible for. And I think both parties are responsible to fix the problem.”