Every Foreign Company in China Accepts CCP as Business Partner: Rep. Gallagher

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) at an event to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2023. Congressional leadership, members of the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese human rights activists attended the event. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a partner of every foreign company doing business in China, a congressional committee warned on Thursday, as lawmakers and experts went to great lengths to explain how corporate environments in China are vastly different.

“There is no such thing as a ‘private company’ in China,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said during his opening statement at a hearing focused on the risks to American companies operating in China.