Observer Network News, according to Reuters report, the "American Innovation and Competition Act of 2021" previously passed by the U.S. Senate met with huge resistance in the House of Representatives . This phenomenon is very rare. The process of passing bills in the United States usually involves a vote in the House of Representatives and then a decision in the Senate. This time it is reversed.
The reason why this happened is because it was the U.S. senator who proposed the "Competition Act" with the purpose of dealing with China in the semiconductor field. The Senate ended the debate on the reform bill by voting. The voting results showed that 68 people supported it and 30 people opposed it. This voting result shows that as long as a formal vote is held, there will be no resistance to the passage of the bill. Then it was taken to the House of Representatives, asking the House of Representatives to vote as soon as possible.
However, the House of Representatives has its own ideas. The members of the House of Representatives came up with an "Eagle Bill". The House of Representatives believed that the "Eagle Bill" they proposed could better fight against China, so they suppressed the "Competition Law" and did not vote. This situation is very subtle. The first thing to understand is that both houses of Congress are currently controlled by Democrats. In the Senate, the two parties in the United States are evenly divided, with 50 members each. Since the vice president also serves as the president of the Senate, the Democratic Party has the upper hand in the Senate.
In the House of Representatives, the Democrats have a numerical advantage, with about ten more seats than Republicans. It stands to reason that the "Competition Law" was proposed in accordance with Biden 's intention to restrict the development of China's chip industry. The amount involved in the bill is as high as 1.2 trillion yuan, showing Biden's great determination.
Since it is Biden’s intention, both houses of Congress should support it. After all, they are both controlled by the Democratic Party. However, a strange scene has emerged now. While the Democratic Party dominates both houses, internal strife breaks out in the two houses. Under normal circumstances, the two houses are not controlled by one party at the same time, so most of the time, the two houses are in opposition. Now that both houses are controlled by the Democratic Party, they are still in opposition, which shows that the divisions within the United States are more serious than imagined. .
The reason why the House of Representatives does not cooperate with the Senate's anti-China bill is because the House of Representatives believes that the "Competition Act" is too weak in anti-China. It is understood that 20 Republicans voted against it, believing that the Competition Act is too weak in dealing with China. This means that there is internal strife in the U.S. Congress over the resistance to China, and the reason for the internal strife is not whether to resist China, but the intensity of the resistance to China. This is enough to show how crazy the United States is.
In fact, this is not the first time that such internal strife has occurred among high-level officials in the United States. Recently, internal strife broke out between U.S. Trade Representative Dai Qi and U.S. President’s National Security Advisor Sullivan over whether to reduce or reduce tariffs. Dai Qi wanted to reduce or reduce some tariffs, but Sullivan opposed it. It can be seen from these bizarre things happening in the United States that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party can reach a certain consensus on the general direction of dealing with China, but there are very big differences in terms of specific efforts.
Even though the United States is in a serious crisis internally, it still focuses its energy on the outside, highlighting its fear of losing its hegemony. In order to maintain its hegemony, the United States does not think about how to make its own progress, but about restricting the development of other countries. This anti-human approach will definitely make the United States reap the consequences.
