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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said China is the “greatest threat” to the United States and that President-elect Donald Trump will bring “peace through strength, not peace through appeasement.”
Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital the CCP is the “adversary we have to watch, both militarily and economically.”
“China is making great strides around the world,” Gimenez said, pointing to its capacity in production, specifically with defense materials and weapons. “It surpasses that of the United States’ and we have seen that we are lacking.”
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Gimenez said the Russian-Ukraine war has “demonstrated to us that our defense capacity has been degraded over the decades.”
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images/File)
“It shows we could run out of munitions fairly quickly if we had a prolonged fight with China,” he said, warning that China also “has the ability to produce many more ships than we do.”
Gimenez said the U.S. is “trying to do catch-up.”
“We have to update how we do things at the Pentagon, we have to be more nimble, we have to get the private sector involved, and we have to eliminate bureaucracy that has hampered our ability to protect ourselves,” he said.
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But as for the approach to the China threat, Gimenez blasted the Biden administration, specifically President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
This view shows the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (VCG via Getty Images/File)
“I think China, with Biden and Blinken, thought they could do just about anything they wanted or thought they could fool them,” he said. “The Biden administration was always exhibiting weakness and trying to appease our enemies, whereas Trump knows exactly who our friends…
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