Lawmakers’ Wargame Shows ‘Catastrophic’ Results in US–China Conflict

Lawmakers in a new House select committee on China (L-R) Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), committee Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) gather for a tabletop wargame exercise in the House Ways and Means Committee room in Washington on April 19, 2023. Ellen Knickmeyer/AP Photo

Lawmakers tasked with overseeing the United States’ strategic competition with China’s communist regime have conducted a wargame simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and the U.S. response.

The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) participated in the wargame, hosted by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank on April 19.