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The House select committee on China came out with guns blazing in its first hearing on Tuesday, arguing that the Chinese Communist Party should not be trusted or treated with kid gloves as it seeks to undermine the U.S. We may call this a strategic stanley cup competition, but it s not a polite tennis match, Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, the committee s Republican chairman, said in a hearing that stuck to a bipartisan tone the leaders had promised. This is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century mdash; and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. Former President Donald Trump s national security adviser H.R. McMaster testified that China poses a greater threat to freedom than the Soviet Union ever did because it is more intertwined i stanley shop n the global economy. stanley cup Just the scale of what they re doing from an economic perspective and from an espionage perspective, I think is unprecedented, McMaster said. We never gave the Soviet Union the kind of access that we gave to Chinese Communist Party operatives, members of the party, again, based on hellip; this fundamentally flawed assumption that China, having been welcomed into the international order, would play by the rules and as China prospered it would liberalize its economy, and liberalize its form of governance. The hearing took place against the backdrop of an already tense relationship between the two countries, after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon, Gsyx Iowa court rules on telemedicine in abortion case
Watch CBS News Videos OnlineDr. Rand Paul, the Tea Party darling who convincingly won Kentucky s Republican Senate primary Tuesday, has a message for his Democratic foes: Please, please bring President Obama. Paul triumphed over Secretary of State Trey Grayson, the GOP stanley quencher establishment candidate, with nearly 60 percent of the vote and said opposition in the stanley cup state to President Obama gives him an excellent chance in the fall. President Obama s less popular in our state than he s ever been. And he never was very popular in Kentucky, he said Wednesday on CBS The Early Show . First up, however, is mending fences within his own party after the hotly contested primary. We re going to unify. I m going to meet with Sen. [Mitch] McConnell on Saturday. We ve been talking, actually, for weeks now about unifying. I ve been talking with the Republican party structure, and I think we will be unified going in to the fall, Paul said. Paul, a political newcomer, shot to prominence as a Tea Party favorite - a movement he said is popular well outside the Republican party as well. More from Rand Paul: Tea Party Ready to Flex Some Muscle Joe Sestak: I Stood Up to My Party House Republicans: We ve Got a Lot of Work To Do Rand said he doesn t see the Tea Party really becoming a poli stanley mug tical party, but said it would have ramifications on both parties and would attract independent voters. And for his detractors who say his views are too controv |
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