Washington: Several influential Republican lawmakers on Wednesday urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to tell the Chinese management that their blatant aggression against Taiwan and India within the Himalayas is “unacceptable”.

The lawmakers have written a letter to Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, forward of their upcoming journey to Beijing.

The Republican Senators led by Marco Rubio from Florida urged them to keep away from giving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a propaganda win and maintain the CCP accountable for its egregious human rights abuses, unfair commerce practices, main function within the fentanyl disaster, and aggression in direction of allies and companions within the Indo-Pacific.

India, the US and a number of other different world powers have been speaking concerning the want to guarantee a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific within the backdrop of China’s rising navy manoeuvring within the resource-rich area.

China claims practically all the disputed South China Sea, although Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all declare elements of it. Beijing has constructed synthetic islands and navy installations within the South China Sea.

China additionally has territorial disputes with Japan within the East China Sea.

“The CCP has stepped up its aggression in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond,” they wrote.

Signatories to the letter as well as to Rubio are Senators Chuck Grassley, Bill Cassidy, Eric Schmitt, Dan Sullivan, Kevin Cramer, Ted Budd, Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Shelley Moore Capito, Pete Ricketts, John Hoeven, and Bill Hagerty.

According to the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, China is the one competitor with each the intent to reshape the worldwide order and, more and more, the financial, diplomatic, navy, and technological energy to do it.

Xi Jinping acknowledged in his 20th Party Congress report that the CCP has proven a combating spirit and a agency dedication to by no means yield to coercive energy. “As we have seen recently, General Secretary Xi has engaged in unacceptable and provocative behaviour in the Taiwan strait and along the Himalayan border with India,” the letter stated.

“Beyond the Indo-Pacific, the CCP has…intelligence collection outposts in the United States, Japan, and throughout Europe to suppress dissidents and keep tabs on those who Beijing deems a threat. It is evident that General Secretary Xi is determined to use coercion and aggression against the US and our allies and partners to achieve his geopolitical goals. Deterring the CCP from achieving these goals, therefore, must be our top priority,” the Senators wrote.

According to the Senators, the CCP is the worst offender of human rights.

Both the Biden and Trump administrations have decided that Beijing’s actions against Uyghurs, and different predominantly Muslim ethnic teams, within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) – together with its system of mass surveillance and internment, denial of people rights to peacefully apply their faith, and use of pressured labour, sexual violence, pressured abortion, and compelled sterilisation of ladies – represent genocide and crimes against humanity.

Moreover, the CCP continues to deny primary human rights to different teams whom the regime deems a menace, similar to Tibetans, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP is additionally chargeable for fuelling the fentanyl disaster within the US, a scourge which has, and continues, to kill Americans.

“Finally, the CCP continues the horrible practice of wrongfully detaining US citizens and the family members of US citizens, including David Lin, Mark Swidan, Kai Li, Gulshan Abbas, Ekpar Asat, and Zhou Deyong. You must make clear that the United States will not cooperate with a regime that uses hostages as bargaining chips,” the letter stated.

Beijing, they stated, additionally has a protracted historical past of unfair commerce practices and industrial espionage, which has brought about immense hurt to American staff and our financial system.

“Over the last several decades, China has engaged in a methodical campaign to steal American intellectual property and research, often redirecting the acquired technologies to military ends. It has repeatedly abused its privileges in the world trading system to exploit our nation’s open economy and establish itself a leader in critical industries, including pharmaceuticals, rare-earth minerals, and commodities such as steel,” the Senators wrote.

“We are pleased that the US Trade Representative has continued to impose Section 301 tariffs on certain products made in China in response to its “unreasonable” and “discriminatory” non-market practices, and this device ought to proceed to be used to counter unfair commerce insurance policies of China. Meanwhile, far more wants to be executed to rebalance our financial relationship with Beijing,” wrote the Senators.

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