June 9, 20233:55 AM GMT+7Updated 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters)
- Legislation to strip China of its status as a "developing nation"
at some international organizations was passed by a U.S. Senate committee on
Thursday, as members of the U.S. focus on competing with the Asian power.
The Senate Foreign
Relations Committee approved the "Ending China's Developing Nation Status
Act" without dissent. The bill would require the Secretary of State to
pursue changing China's status as a developing nation in international
organizations.
Proponents of the bill
say that status can allow special privileges in some organizations or treaties.
The committee's
approval paves the way for the measure to be considered by the full Senate,
although there was no immediate indication of when that might take place.
A similar measure passed
the House of Representatives in March by 415-0.
The desire for a hard
line on China is one of the few truly bipartisan sentiments in the perennially
divided U.S. Congress, and members of Congress have introduced dozens of bills
seeking to address competition with China's communist government.
The Foreign Relations
panel also approved the "Taiwan Protection and National Resilience
Act," which would require reports from government agencies on U.S. options
to prepare for and respond to a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
China views
democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has increased military,
political and economic pressure to assert those claims.
Taiwan strongly
objects to China’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s people can
decide their future.
Reporting by Patricia
Zengerle; Editing by Daniel Wallis
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-panel-approves-measure-strip-china-developing-status-2023-06-08/
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