Republican lawmakers expressed concern over the Biden administration’s China policies when Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on March 10. Leading the criticism was Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who asked Blinken whether he would impose “a serious cost” on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over its human rights violations, and whether he would retain the Commerce Department’s “entity list” blacklisting Chinese companies involved in human rights abuses. “I’ve chaired over 75 congressional hearings focused exclusively on CCP human rights violations including pervasive religious persecution, torture, gulag labor, forced abortion, organ harvesting, democracy suppression, media censorship, the jailing of journalists and bloggers, and genocide,” Smith explained. In response to Smith’s questions, Blinken said that he intended to build “coalitions of like-minded countries who share these deep concerns about human rights abuses in China.” Blinken explained, “We are determined to put human rights and …