Ten U.S. congressmen, both Republicans and Democrats, spent the weekend in Britain trying to persuade politicians there that the two countries must jointly respond to aggression by China.
Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of Congress’s new Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, led the delegation. He and some of his British counterparts have criticized the U.K. for being weak on China and naïve about its tactics and goals. Gallagher’s message that President Xi Jinping aims to “subordinate and humiliate” the West comes days after the release of a congressional report on the rapid deterioration of human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong.
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