Several pieces of US legislation targeting China – including one that could close Hong Kong’s representative offices in America and another that would all but block US investment in China’s AI and other hi-tech sectors – cleared a key congressional committee on Wednesday.
A bill that would bolster Washington’s cooperation with India, Japan and Australia and others that would authorise further action aimed at protecting China’s Tibetan and Uygur populations from alleged human rights abuses also passed without objection.
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