The Washington Post-New China committee report raises questions about California lab
November 15, 2023 3 min 536 words
这篇报道揭示了美中关系调查委员会的最新调查结果，尤其是对一家在加利福尼亚州Reedley市被发现的中资医学实验室的深入调查。报道指责了美中两国政府，并引发了更多问题而非解答。委员会报告指出，该实验室的业主是中国公民朱嘉贝，曾从美国公司窃取数百万美元的知识产权，涉及跨国犯罪活动，最终在联邦法庭被起诉。然而，尽管发现朱嘉贝从中国银行获得大额汇款，但没有证据证明他直接与中国政府有关。 该报道对疾病控制与预防中心对实验室问题的反应提出批评，并敦促国会通过法律应对“未经许可、未注册和完全不为人知的非法生物实验室”所带来的威胁。这凸显了对于美中科技合作和生物安全的担忧。然而，该委员会的工作也受到了一些民主党人的批评，暗示着美中关系问题在美国国内政治中的分歧。这一报道反映了国际政治与国内立法之间复杂而紧张的关系，需要谨慎对待。
2023-11-15T03:42:12.288Z
As President Biden meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, the House select committee examining the United States’ relationship with China is set to release a new report in the afternoon detailing the results of its latest investigation.
The report sharply criticizes the U.S. government as well as China’s — and it raises more questions than it provides answers.
The report details the committee’s investigation into a Chinese-owned medical lab discovered by a local code enforcement officer in December in Reedley, Calif. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who represents a neighboring congressional district, said he would raise the matter with the committee this summer when he was still speaker.
The committee issued its first subpoena in September as part of its investigation into the lab.
The lab was owned by a Chinese citizen named Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, a “fugitive [who] had previously stolen millions of dollars of intellectual property from American companies and was part of an ongoing transnational criminal enterprise with ties to [China] for which he was ultimately charged in federal court,” according to the committee’s report. Federal agents arrested him last month.
The investigation found that Zhu received “unexplained wealth in the form of large payments via wire transfer from” Chinese banks, according to the report. But the committee didn’t turn up evidence that Zhu had direct ties to the Chinese government.
Instead, the report criticizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to local officials’ concerns about the lab and urges Congress to pass legislation to address “the profound threat that unlicensed, unregistered, and wholly unknown illegal biolabs pose to everyday Americans.”
House Republicans proposed creating a committee to examine the Chinese Communist Party after they retook the majority last year, but most House Democrats backed setting it up, too. The committee has worked in relatively bipartisan fashion, although some Democrats have criticized its rhetoric.
The committee is also investigating the venture capital industry’s investment in China. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the committee’s chairman, said he hoped the findings would inform legislation that would restrict outbound capital flows to China.
Also on the committee’s agenda: a potential trip to China.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a committee member, has been the leading proponent of such a trip, which would follow the trip led by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) last month.
“I’m hopeful that it will come together,” Khanna said. “I obviously want it to be bipartisan. I want to make sure that the Armed Services Committee and the China committee and the speaker are on board with it. I don’t want to do anything outside the normal process, given the sensitivities.”
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), the top Democrat on the committee, said in an interview that he was open to it but would want to make sure committee members weren’t “used as props.”
“My concern ... is that it would just be like two days of getting lectured to by wolf warrior diplomats in nondescript office buildings,” Gallagher said.
“But I’m not ruling it out,” he added.