Lawmakers from both parties hit back at China after the communist regime’s foreign minister demanded the United States stop viewing Beijing as a rival—or face consequences.
On March 7, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) dismissed China’s threat and reminded the Chinese regime of its actions against the United States.
“I’ll just point out this—$500 billion a year of intellectual property theft,” Warner said during a press briefing when answering a question from an NTD reporter. “For years, the use of entities called the Confucius Institutes at many universities that were used to prey upon Chinese exchange students.”
Warner also pointed to TikTok, criticizing the popular Chinese video-sharing app for allowing “Chinese engineers” access to American user data. TikTok is owned by China-based parent company ByteDance, which has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)….