WASHINGTON—The United States will use national security interests to shape its policy on communist China and will impose investment restrictions and sanctions when necessary, the State Department told The Epoch Times.
“We have made clear to the Chinese government—the Secretary has made this clear, the President has made this clear—that we will continue to take those actions when it is in our national security interest to do so,” department spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a Dec. 13 press briefing.
Mr. Miller was responding to a question from The Epoch Times regarding a bipartisan proposal by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party that called for a “reset” on relations with China that put national security and U.S. values at the core of decision-making….
