Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s drastic reductions to the State Department’s annual human rights reports:

WASHINGTON – On Monday in the South China Sea, a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) destroyer collided with and severely damaged a China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter while both were pursuing a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel near Scarborough Shoal, inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. The PLAN destroyer came within mere meters of ramming the Philippine vessel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party issued the following statement in response to reports that the Tr

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the CCP, Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Greg Stanton (D-AZ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Taiwan Caucus, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing “grave concern” over reports that the Trump Administration blocked Taiwan President Lai Ching-te from transiting through New York en route to Central America.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), joined Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), Congressman Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA) to reintroduce the Securing Infrastructure from Adversaries Act, legislation to prohibit the U.S. Department of Transportation from using digital 3-D mapping technology, LiDAR. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party issued the following statement concerning a Financial Times report that the Trump Administration blocked the transit of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te through the United States. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a joint letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick condemning the Trump Administration’s use of semiconductor export controls as negotiating leverage in trade talks with the People’s Republic of China.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, ahead of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party’s hearing titled “United We Stand: Strategies to Counter PRC Economic Coercion Against Democracies,” Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sent two letters to senior administration officials demanding stronger action to confront the CCP’s weaponization of global critical mineral supply chains.