Congressman Raja on CNN

Last week, Congressman Raja joined Jake Tapper and colleague Congressman Mike Gallagher on CNN to discuss the committee’s first hearing being held later that evening. The Congressman told Jake, “One of the issues that we’re probably going to talk about tonight is the economic issues and the trade issues that have ended up hollowing out the manufacturing sectors in the heartland…because of unfair trade practices, because of industrial espionage, because of forced technology transfer that many of our small and other businesses must engage in order to do business in the People’s Republic of China.” The Congressman later emphasized, “We want to make sure that at the same time we make our differences known with the Chinese Communist Party, that we set aside the people of China, or people of Chinese origin, or Asian Americans, because we don’t want to in any way encourage the stereotype, or discrimination, or tropism, that often infects our conversations in regards to the PRC…our quarrel is not with the people of China or Chinese origin people. We need to stand up to the threats and challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party.”