
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of the House’s new Select Committee on China and a member of the Armed Services Committee, has announced he won’t seek reelection. While the China Committee, which focuses on examining Beijing’s technological and security priorities and ongoing competition with the United States, may or may not be extended past this current Congress, Gallagher’s departure is expected to leave a high-priority opening for House GOP leadership on the issue. “Electoral politics was never supposed to be…