The Chinese Communist Party has destroyed millions of American jobs and stolen trillions of dollars in American intellectual property. By its own actions, Beijing has forfeited its preferential trade status with the United States. That is why we, along with Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio and Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley, have authored a comprehensive repeal of China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations. Our legislation would strategically decouple the U.S. and Chinese economies and end China’s economic war on American workers and businesses.
In 2000, our nation’s leaders granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations to China and provided the Chinese Communist Party with open access to the American economy. They believed China would become freer as it grew rich and that our companies would benefit from fair and free access to over 1.2 billion Chinese consumers. That simply has not happened.
Instead, the Chinese Communist Party is more repressive, and the Chinese people are less free. The Chinese government has committed every economic crime imaginable, treated our companies …