Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced this week a pair of bills he said are designed to further empower the nation’s strategic competition against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
McCaul serves as Republican leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the China Task Force.
The Countering CCP Malign Influence Act (H.R. 7937) fully funds the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to provide dedicated resources to counter malign CCP activities, ensuring the Fund is directed by an appropriate regional expert.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Information Abroad (USIA) for Strategic Competition Act (H.R. 7938) would revitalize the focus on countering China’s ideologies and establishes a reimagined Active Measures Working Group, officials said, adding the effort would direct, empower and provide accountability and metrics for long-term messaging campaigns to advance domestic interests.
“The CCP is a generational threat, and the U.S. must take decisive action to check their increasingly hostile activity around the globe and here at home,” McCaul said. “We must lead the free world in not only condemning their malign actions but meaningfully countering their destructive behavior and stopping their totalitarian agenda from advancing any further. These bills will help take on this growing challenge.”