President Donald Trump congratulated the People’s Republic of China for its 70th anniversary Tuesday morning. Senate Republicans were in no mood to celebrate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) compared China under President Xi Jinping to a “modern version of Maoist China” and criticized the government for violence against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong and placing Uighurs — a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority group — in internment camps.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) warned that “an authoritarian China is perhaps the single greatest threat to freedom around the world,” while Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) emphasized that the 70th anniversary of communist rule was no cause for celebration but “a day to remind ourselves of the horrors inflicted on the Chinese people over this time.”
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said the American people stand with the “freedom-seekers in Hong Kong,” and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said the Chinese Communist Party has waged “economic warfare against Missourians through currency manipulation and tariffs targeting our farmers.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a close Trump ally, said “it has been a ghoulish 70 years of Chinese Communist Party control.”
In the House, Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) lambasted the Chinese government’s “appalling record of repression.”
Those statements stood in stark contrast to the president’s remarks on Twitter.
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