Tail Gunner Mike

Select Committee Chair Leans Into Role as China Hawk

Posted 10/5/23

Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party kept the business of his committee humming last month, despite the rest of the Chamber being run into in the ditch.  

The twice-deployed Marine, Princetonian and Georgetown PhD has maintained a steady drumbeat of hearings and press events scolding US firms for doing business with the Chinese and lambasting the administration for not sharing his vitriol.   

Year to date, the committee's efforts have been strictly performative, calling for the production of reams of information on a broad array of topics.  Analysis and informed policy reccomendations may follow.

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