Rep. Trent Kelly, the Mississippi Republican who chaired the hearing by the House Armed Services subcommittee on seapower and projection forces, said the U.S. couldn’t fulfill its historic obligation as a seapower unless it rapidly expands the nation’s fleet of warships and the crews to sail them.
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Mr. Kelly asked the two defense officials “what kind of risk assessment or risk analysis we’ve conducted and how the Wuhan Institute of Virology became the partner of choice for U.S. government agencies, given its ties to the PLA,” he said, using the acronym for People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese military.
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