Commentary
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is the brainchild of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It sounds like a great start to the new Republican-led Congress for 2023.
But a bit of circumspection is advisable and with good reason.
All Bark, No Bite
First, the new select committee’s powers are rather limited. It is only investigative. In other words, it can only watch or discover existing or emerging dangers, threats, or other subversive activities by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States. So it can identify threats posed by the CCP against the country, but it can’t outlaw them or otherwise address them in any tangible, legal capacity….