Rep Gimenez warns China is ‘biggest menace’ to US, Trump admin will ‘venture energy’ to CCP

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Carlos Gimenez, a member of the Home Choose Committee on the Chinese language Communist Get together (CCP), mentioned China is the “biggest menace” to the US and that President-elect Donald Trump will convey “peace via energy, not peace via appeasement.” 

Gimenez, R-Fla., advised Fox Information Digital the CCP is the “adversary we’ve got to look at, each militarily and economically.” 

“China is making nice strides world wide,” Gimenez mentioned, pointing to its capability in manufacturing, particularly with protection supplies and weapons. “It surpasses that of the US’ and we’ve got seen that we’re missing.” 

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Gimenez mentioned the Russian-Ukraine struggle has “demonstrated to us that our protection capability has been degraded over the a long time.”

“It reveals we might run out of munitions pretty shortly if we had a protracted combat with China,” he mentioned, warning that China additionally “has the power to provide many extra ships than we do.” 

Gimenez mentioned the U.S. is “making an attempt to do catch-up.” 

“We’ve got to replace how we do issues on the Pentagon, we’ve got to be extra nimble, we’ve got to get the non-public sector concerned, and we’ve got to get rid of forms that has hampered our capability to guard ourselves,” he mentioned. 

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However as for the method to the China menace, Gimenez blasted the Biden administration, particularly President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“I believe China, with Biden and Blinken, thought they might do absolutely anything they needed or thought they might idiot them,” he mentioned. “The Biden administration was at all times exhibiting weak point and making an attempt to appease our enemies, whereas Trump is aware of precisely who our associates are, who our enemies are and goes to place the safety of America first.”

Gimenez added, “He understands that the safety of America lies in peace via energy, not peace via appeasement.”

As for confronting the menace within the coming months, Gimenez pointed to the significance of the U.S. being vitality unbiased.

Gimenez mentioned he needs to “make America the vitality spigot of the world, the place the world goes to get vitality is America.” 

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“It could assist our monetary state of affairs, our steadiness sheet, and provides us the power to assist our associates and weaken our enemies,” he mentioned.

“We might use our vitality dominance as an financial weapon in opposition to our enemies, serving to our associates and hurting our enemies,” he continued. “We will substitute Iranian and Venezuelan oil with American oil, Russian oil with American oil, after which starve these international locations that are allied with China of their biggest income after which impede their capability to assist China.”

“If China finds itself remoted on the planet, I believe that’s one of the simplest ways we will comprise this menace,” he mentioned. “However we’ve got to venture energy and the willingness to confront aggression by the CCP.”

As for the Home Choose Committee on the CCP, he mentioned they’ve “rather more work to do.” 

“The China menace is growing,” he mentioned, noting that the committee is bipartisan in its nature and that members on each side of the aisle have “purchased into that China is the menace and that China would be the menace.”

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“It’s not local weather change, it’s China,” he mentioned. “And we’ve got to confront that menace or stay in a world that’s dominated by the Chinese language Communist Get together.”

“And Trump goes to venture energy and again these phrases with motion.”