{"id":31131,"date":"2021-01-27T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31131"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:17:19","slug":"a-huawei-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31131","title":{"rendered":"A HUAWEI DILEMMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul (R-Texas), on Wednesday called on members of the Senate to block consideration of Gina Raimondo, President Biden\u2019s pick for Commerce secretary, until she clarifies her stance on Chinese telecom giant Huawei.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul was critical of Raimondo\u2019s refusal to commit to keeping Huawei on the Commerce Department\u2019s \u201centity list\u201d if confirmed, and also around the Biden administration\u2019s unclear stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil they make their intentions clear on whether they will keep Huawei on the Entity List, I urge my Senate colleagues to hold Ms. Raimondo\u2019s confirmation,\u201d McCaul said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>While McCaul as a member of the House does not have the power to block consideration of Raimondo, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told The Hill that \u201call options remain on the table\u201d terms of a potential block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31132,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31131\/revisions\/31132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}