House committee heats up attack on WuXi AppTec, accuses BIO of aligning with China

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has intensified and broadened its assault on WuXi AppTec, reiterating accusations that the company poses a threat to national security and attacking BIO for the trade association’s criticism of a bill that seeks to drive the contract development and manufacturing organization out of the U.S.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland released Monday night, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the select committee’s chairman, said, “BIO’s advocacy on behalf of WuXi AppTec raises concerns that it is operating as an unregistered agent of a foreign principal while advancing the interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”...