The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed the State Department for documents relating to the agency’s reported decision to withhold actions aimed at confronting threats from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on July 12 that he has filed a subpoena to Secretary of State Antony Blinken after the department failed to cooperate with the committee’s document production request.
Among the materials Mr. McCaul subpoenaed is the department’s “competitive actions” calendar—a classified document reportedly laying out the Biden administration’s plan against communist China.
Citing unnamed sources and internal emails, Reuters reported in May that the U.S. State Department delayed several items on the classified list to “limit damage to the U.S.-China relationship” following the U.S. military’s shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon in February….