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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ PO1 Sam Deel for posting a comparison of H.R. 4521 by your congress person on the "America COMPETES Act, otherwise known as the America CONCEDES to China Act, will only help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).'
I certainly concur that the Republican alternative, H.R 4792, the Countering Communist China Act [Introduced on 07/29/2021 by Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3] is a bill I would also support. Since you live in Texas, I expect your representative is a cosponsor of H.R 4792. The following Texans cosponsored this bill. who is your representative?
Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]*
Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]*
Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]*
Rep. Gooden, Lance [R-TX-5]
Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24]
Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Rep. Ellzey, Jake [R-TX-6]

Here is a link to the text of the bill H.R 4792
To counter the malign influence and theft perpetuated by the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party.
{[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4792/text]}
SEC. 2. Findings.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party represent the foremost national security threat faced by the United States.
(2) The People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party are founded on the principles antithetical to human freedom and dignity including Communism and authoritarianism.
(3) The People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party seek to undermine free societies around the world and establish an alternative world order rooted in authoritarianism.
(4) In November 2012, at the 17th CCP Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping first announced his vision for achieving “the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation” and military and economic dominance.
(5) The People’s Republic of China currently has the world’s second-largest economy in terms of nominal GDP ($14.14 trillion) and the largest in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP ($27.31 trillion). In 2000, the People’s Republic of China controlled only 4 percent of the global economy, and the United States controlled 31 percent. Today, the People’s Republic of China stands at 15 percent and the United States’ share has dropped to 24 percent.
(6) The growth of the People’s Republic of China’s centrally controlled economy has been fueled largely by tools of economic coercion, including intellectual property theft and economic espionage of U.S. companies. In 2019 alone, one in five North American-based companies said that Chinese firms had stolen their intellectual property (IP) within the last year.
(7) Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has stated that the People’s Republic of China “is perpetrating the greatest intellectual property theft in human history”.
(8) In addition to its economic aggression and military modernization, the People’s Republic of China conducts political warfare and disinformation campaigns against the United States and other democracies. It frequently targets academia, the media, business, and cultural institutions to suppress criticism and promote positive views of the CCP.
(9) The foremost victims of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party are the Chinese people who continue to suffer under communist authoritarian rule.
(10) The People’s Republic of China continues to perpetuate a genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, in addition to brutal crackdowns against the people of Tibet and Hong Kong.
(11) The CCP continues to obfuscate the origins of the COVID–19 pandemic which started in Wuhan, China and has refused to allow an impartial international investigation into the origins of the pandemic.
(12) Manifestations of expressions of racism, bigotry, discrimination, anti-Asian rhetoric, and xenophobia against people of Asian descent are contrary to the values we hold dearest as Americans, counterproductive to countering the CCP’s malign influence, and denounced by the Congress of the United States."

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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Too many are concerned about profits to worry about freedom and security
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You have a good representative. Ours sucks
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CPL Sheila Lewis
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The US has been in Chinas crosshairs for years.
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