{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/11/tillis-discusses-u-s-china-relations-on-fox-news", "Tillis Discusses U.S.-China Relations on Fox News", "2023-11-15", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Thom Tillis appeared on Fox News\u2019 Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss the importance of eliminating America\u2019s pharmaceutical and medical supply dependence on China and the future of U.S.-China relations. Senator Tillis\u2019 comments come as President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping today.\n\nWatch the interview HERE.\n\nSenator Tillis on Foreign Direct Investment in China:\n\n\u201cI think they\u2019ve got serious problems. They\u2019ve got a long-term problem because they\u2019re seeing a reduction in foreign direct investment in China. That\u2019s an indication that the world has woken up and decided that we\u2019ve got to reduce our dependence on China for so many of our supply chains. They have a demographic problem. They have a problem that we don\u2019t have, we have lots of allies. They don\u2019t have a lot of allies.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on America\u2019s Relationship with China:\n\n\u201cI think that China is in a weaker position they\u2019ve been in some time, and it concerns me that this President won\u2019t go in playing with what I think is a strong hand. China has to behave differently for us to reward them in any way. I\u2019ve seen this administration reach out to Iran. I\u2019ve seen them reach out to China. I want those to be postures of strength, where those regimes have to change for us to have any concessions or working relationships.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on Future American Investments in China:\n\n\u201cI think what we have got to do is look at China differently. I don\u2019t mind the idea of investments in China that are beneficial to the United States. I no longer want the pattern that we have seen over the last quarter-century of investments in China that make us more dependent on them. And we\u2019re seeing that happen organically. We learned our lesson from COVID. But I do think that there\u2019s a market there. Think about that the Chinese people have nearly twice our population size in what they consider to be the middle class. That will probably shrink a bit over time. But it\u2019s still a big market that I think that we want American and Western businesses to serve.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on America\u2019s Dependence on China:\n\n\u201cOne of my favorite pictures coming out of China is a little Chinese girl wearing a Wonder Woman outfit with a Captain America shield. I want American culture, Western culture known in China, because that\u2019s a path to freedom and ultimately change in China. What I don\u2019t want are strategic investments that make us dependent upon them for our pharmaceutical supply chains, the PPEs, all the things that we saw that we were dependent on in China over the time that we were dealing with the COVID pandemic. That has to change. We should have learned our lesson.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/11/tillis-discusses-u-s-china-relations-on-fox-news"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9518309962004423, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}