Voting Underway in U.S. Congressional Midterm Elections
The United States is holding its congressional midterm elections, with all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate up for election.
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The United States is holding its congressional midterm elections, with all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate up for election.
Three Republican chairmen of special committees in the U.S. House of Representatives jointly wrote to the Secretary of Homeland Security in mid-October, demanding that the list of privileges for COSCO Shipping at U.S. ports be revoked and a review be launched.
According to @ChinaSelect, the U.S. government is investigating nine universities on suspicion of J-1 visa fraud. Previously, a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released an investigative report titled "From Ph.D. to PLA," pointing out serious loopholes in U.S. academic institutions that could be exploited by the Chinese Communist Party to obtain sensitive research results. This investigation is seen as a further follow-up and response to the aforementioned security loopholes.
Pentagon officials held approximately a one-hour meeting with staff of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Armed Services Committee, discussing specific details about F-35 stealth fighter parts being transshipped via UPS and flowing to Hong Kong.
John Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, criticized Starbucks' opening of a store in Ürümqi as a morally bankrupt decision, calling for its immediate closure and saying that every cup of coffee ties American brands to the CCP's oppression of the Uyghurs.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive sanctions bill against Russia on September 16 by a vote of 262 to 159, restricting Russian energy revenue and imposing tariffs of up to 100% on countries that continue to purchase large amounts of Russian energy. China, as Russia's largest oil buyer, bears the brunt of the bill, which will be sent to Trump for signature.
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, with Congress in recess, lawmakers from both parties stood together on the House floor before leaving Washington to mourn the Americans and frontline rescue workers who died in the 9/11 attacks, and called on the public to remember the unity and resilience shown across society after the attacks.
A House committee report said that an investigation of U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects found roughly 4,350 scientific research papers involving Chinese institutions, more than half of which were related to Chinese defense research institutions.
On Wednesday (May 7), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill under which American universities with ties to certain Chinese universities would be barred from receiving Department of Homeland Security funding. Lead sponsor, Republican Representative Ploug, said there is already evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has maliciously expanded its influence in the United States through programs such as Confucius Institutes.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Taiwan International Solidarity Act, stating that United Nations Resolution 2758 has been abused and misused to wrongly obstruct Taiwan's entry into the international community. The bill had not yet been passed by the Senate at the time.