GOP comes out swinging at China: 5 hearings, votes on a dozen bills aimed at CCP

House Republicans on Tuesday were taking several steps aimed at reining in China's economic and scientific prowess, as well as warding off the threat of a Taiwan invasion.

In early January, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., won bipartisan support when he declared, "the era of trusting communist China is over," and Tuesday’s hearings and votes are likely to cement a growing bipartisan consensus that the U.S. needs to take much tougher steps against the Chinese Communist Party. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.

Tuesday morning, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was set to hold a hearing on "Combatting the Generational Challenge of CCP Aggression," which will hear testimony from State Department officials on the recent Chinese surveillance episode and China’s aggressive stance on Taiwan.