Shelving China actions harms US national security, House Democrats say

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s “troubling” decision to pause key tech security measures aimed at Beijing jeopardizes U.S. national security in the interest of steadying relations with China, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Monday. Sign up here. “The Administration’s actions suggest a troubling pattern of sacrificing America’s national and economic security to stabilize relations with China and resolve the trade war the President himself started,” write Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sydney Kamlager-Dove, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs panel’s South and Central Asia Subcommittee….