Bipartisan House bill calls for task force on China’s ‘economic coercion’

Two House Foreign Affairs Committee members this week unveiled a bill that would establish an interagency task force to craft and implement a government strategy to counter what they call China’s “coercive economic measures.” The task force would include the U.S. Trade Representative, according to the “ Countering China Economic Coercion Act ” introduced by Reps. Ami Bera (D-CA) and Ann Wagner (R-MO). Bera chairs the Foreign Affairs Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and nonproliferation subcommittee; Wagner is a member...