The California governor’s China trip is triggering GOP lawmakers who bridle at his apparent willingness to soft-pedal hot-button issues in pursuit of climate cooperation.
“Governor Newsom’s effort to cozy up to the Chinese Communist Party is delusional,” said Rep. Michelle Steel , pictured speaking. Newsom should “re-iterate U.S. national security priorities, including deterring CCP military aggression against allies in the Indo-Pacific,” said Rep. Michael McCaul . | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBEIJING — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is handing his current and possible future Republican opponents a potent line of political attack in his trip to China this week.
Where Newsom has hewed to traditional Democratic positions on domestic issues like gun safety and curriculum wars, he’s veering into shakier political terrain by embracing Chinese officials, particularly with two international wars underway. At the same time, GOP China hawks on Capitol Hill are sharpening their knives over Newsom’s willingness to engage with a government that, the Chinese spy balloon incident in February and Beijing’s alignment with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and now in— makes his travel plans doubly triggering for GOP lawmakers who see China as an existential threat.
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