WATCH: Hugo Gurdon says ‘at last there seems to be some leadership’ as GOP pushes back on China
Heather Hamilton
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Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon noted the lack of serious attention to China’s influence in recent decades, saying the Chinese government is trying to displace the United States as the world’s leading power.
“There has been a terrible lack of leadership in Washington making it perfectly clear, denouncing China and talking to the American people about the challenge that this country faces in the way that Ronald Reagan did when the enemy was the Soviet Union,” Gurdon told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
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“One good thing is that, at last, there seems to be some leadership up on Capitol Hill,” he added. “Mike Gallagher, a congressman from Wisconsin who heads the China committee and is a rising star, is, at last, saying the clear things that need to be said to galvanize America, to realize the challenge it faces from this rising power of China.”
Gurdon highlighted several ways China has pitted itself against the U.S., including aiding the fentanyl crisis and supporting Russia in the war against Ukraine.
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He also noted the recent findings of the House GOP Hunter Biden investigation linking payments from a Chinese energy company to Hallie Biden, the widow of President Joe Biden’s son Beau.
“There is obviously an unfortunate connection between the fact that [China] is paying millions of dollars to the Biden family for we know not what, is the United States’s principal adversary, and, frankly, is determined to displace this country as the leading power in the world.”