First on Fox: Scare China is a top priority in the congress For the number four Republican of the house.
Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, chairman of the GOP conference, states legislation that would uncover the assets of TOP -CCP officials and prohibit them from using American banking systems as China chooses to invade Taiwan.
Her bill would require the Minister of Finance to unleash details about illegal assets kept by Chinese officials and “uncover all players” to show what their money comes to the public.
Taiwan Coast Guard holds the Chinese-registered ship that is suspected of cutting undersea cable
Rep. Lisa McClain has raised legislation that would uncover the assets of TOP -CCP officials and forbid them to use American banking systems if China chooses to invade Taiwan. (Tom Williams via Getty Images)
The US has been operated on for decades under a deliberately vague “one China” policy that Taiwan supports military aid, but refuses to say whether America would defend Taiwan if China would penetrate.
“This is deterrence. The US cannot risk Taiwan’s invasion that would interrupt our critical supply chains,” McClain, a member of the Financial Services Committee, told FOX News Digital. “We have to maintain the pressure, we must not forget that China is not our friend.”
McClain’s legislation, just like president Donald Trump another 10% announced in rates that he intends to place on Chinese goods – the last shot in an escalating trade war. Canada and Mexico will also be confronted in 10% in rates.
Last month, the president imposed at least 10% rates on Chinese input. He also proposed 25% rates for Mexico and Canada, but they were delayed in the midst of promises that the two countries would do more to increase border enforcement. However, Trump said on Thursday that the nations still did not do enough to combat drug trafficking.
“Drugs are still flowing into our country from Mexico and Canada on very high and unacceptable levels. A large percentage of these medicines, many of them in the form of fentanyl, is made in and supplied by China, “said Trump.
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In the meantime, China has warned the US that there are “no winners” in a trade war and insisted that it was aggressively aimed at Fentanyl as a favor for the US
“Out of friendliness and sympathy for American people and responsibility as a large country, although Fentanyl is not a problem in China, China has put in many human, material and financial means to help us tackle the fentanyl crisis. It is honest to say that China is real and selfish,” Yang Pang, the Secondaris, the Secondaris, the Secondary, and Law, the Secondary, and Lawy, the Secondary, and Lawy, for Fentanyl, and Law, and Law, Fentanian, the Secondary, and Law, and Law, and Law, Fentanl, and Law, Legaly, Law, Law, Law, the Secondary, and Law, Fentanyl, and Law, Fentanyl, and Legaly, and Law told.
Taiwan Coast Guard Staffboard A Togo-Flag freight ship in Wateren for Penghu, Taiwan, on February 25, 2025. (Taiwan Coast Guard/Handout/Anadolu via Getty images)
She added that China has transferred more than 10,000 “pieces of information” to his American counterpart with regard to online platforms that fentanyl trade perform.
American intelligence officials have linked 2027 as the year in which China will have the opportunity to launch a complete invasion of Taiwan.
Taiwan sends Marine, Air Force after China launches live-Fire exercises without warning
Wang Huning, the fourth ranking of the Chinese Communist Party, called for greater reunification attempts with Taiwan this week. (Rao Aimin/Xinhua via Getty images)
In recent years, China has increasingly crawled in Taiwanese waters with threatening displays of violence.
Taiwan sent his naval, land and air force on Wednesday after China launched a live-Fire training zone, only 40 nautical miles off his coast.
As part of the exercise, Taiwan says that it has discovered 32 Chinese military planes with joint exercises with warships. Chinese officials have not recognized Taiwan’s complaints so far.
And days ago the fourth leader of the CCP, Wang Huning, called for larger “reunification” efforts. China has long maintained that Taiwan is a rebel area of ​​Beijing.
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China has to “understand the right to dominate and take the initiative in cross-trait relationships, and unshakable pushing the cause of reunification of the mother country ahead,” Huning said, according to a translation by Chinese state media.
On Tuesday, the coast guard of Taiwan The Chinese crew detained of a ship registered by Togolese that is suspected of cutting a submarine fiber optic cable that connects the islands of Taiwan and Penghu.
Anders Hagstrom of FOX News Digital has contributed to this report.
