{"id":153774,"date":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153774"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:00:06","slug":"us-lawmaker-ro-khanna-defends-calling-witness-racist-in-explosive-china-committee-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153774","title":{"rendered":"US lawmaker Ro Khanna defends calling witness \u2018racist\u2019 in explosive China committee clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRo Khanna, the ranking member of the US House Select Committee on China, has defended calling a witness \u201cracist\u201d during testimony last week over comments on Chinese-Americans who obtain US citizenship through birthright.<br \/>\nThe heated exchange took place during a June 25 hearing on economic espionage and subnational influence, where Khanna confronted Michael Lucci, founder of the Texas-based State Armor non-profit organisation, over a controversial social media post published in April.<br \/>\nIn the post,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3358911\/us-lawmaker-ro-khanna-defends-calling-witness-racist-explosive-china-committee-clash?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRo Khanna, the ranking member of the US House Select Committee on China, has defended calling a witness \u201cracist\u201d during testimony last week over&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}