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Lauren Gambino in Washington

‘Time is not on our side’: Congress panel says tackling China defines next century

Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House committee on strategic competition with China
Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House committee on strategic competition with China. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Congress must act urgently to counter economic and national security threats posed by China, lawmakers on a newly created special House committee warned in its first primetime hearing.

China and the US are locked in an “existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century”, the Republican chairman, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, said.

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