China threat to US demands ‘urgency,’

WASHINGTON - The chairman of a special House committee dedicated to countering Chinese threats to the US warned Tuesday night that Beijing has sought to pit Americans "against each other to undermine our country." "Just because this Congress is divided, we cannot afford to waste the next two years lingering in legislative limbo or pandering for the press," Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said in his opening remarks. "We must act with a sense of urgency." The prime-time debut of the panel, officially known as the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party,…