Cotton calls for speedy bipartisan changes to counter many threats from China

Published February 18, 2021 10:38pm ET



The Biden administration will have to make fast policy changes if it is to limit China’s growing military power, argues Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, in a pitch that is gaining bipartisan momentum.

From Chinese export controls on the rare earth elements used to produce F-35 fighter jets to an outsized U.S. economic dependency that fuels the growth of China’s military, Cotton called for the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress to work with Republicans on an urgent solution.

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