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Local reports indicate that the incident involved a friendly drone approaching too close to Miraflores Palace, triggering a response from the presidential guard.
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It is an honor to serve as the new Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on China.
Americans have been shafted as the trade deficit with China has widened causing jobs to leave.
We need a new economic patriotism of investment in our communities and a new era of American innovation in every place across our nation.Josh Rogin (@joshrogin)NEW: @RoKhanna has been named the new ranking Democrat on the CCP Committee:
In an in-depth interview, Khanna laid out his vision for the year ahead, promising a sharper critique of the Trump administration and a greater focus on how China’s actions impact American workers and communities.
In Washington’s China-watching circles, Khanna is seen as neither a hawk nor a dove. He has shown a willingness to buck hawkish trends, including by joining Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) on legislation to repeal the committee’s most prominent achievement, a law requiring a divestiture of the social media app TikTok. With the Trump administration now signaling a partial sale of TikTok by parent company ByteDance, key details remain unresolved, so congressional oversight will be key.
Khanna takes up his committee post fresh off a trip to China in September, as part of the first congressional delegation to visit China in years. He talked about this journey — and his larger journey to the forefront of the U.S.-China debate.
Q: You have taken on the job of top Democrat on the China committee at a crucial time. Why did you want this job, and what are your priorities as the ranking member?
A: We need a moonshot in this country for more industrial self-reliance. That is particularly true in the case of rare earths and magnets. We can’t have China hold the world hostage. So, I want to lead a Manhattan Project for rare earths and magnets in the United States. We can look to Japan as a model, which achieved some of that when they found they were too dependent on China. And it’s going to take both the production and processing in the United States in a way that is clean, but also in partnership with our allies — whether that is Australia, whether it’s Malaysia, whether it’s New Zealand [or] Japan — to have a concerted response. And it seems rare earths and magnets are front and center, but the Manhattan project can be broader than just rare earths and magnets. It can be any choke point in the United States [where] we don’t want China to have leverage.
Read the entire interview here: wapo.st/3KZPIRd— https://x.com/joshrogin/status/2008252990482731428
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