The movement to eliminate the free trade perks China enjoys in the U.S. is gaining steam under Republican control of government.

Republican senators have introduced a bill that would ban Chinese citizens from purchasing any land in the United States. Arkansas' Tom Cotton, Alabama's Katie Britt, and North Dakota's Kevin Cramer introduced the Not One More Inch or Acre Act on Wednesday.

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

US Senator Tom Cotton has criticised China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status, highlighting its detrimental impact on both the US economy and national security. In a post shared on X, Senator Cotton stated,

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion.

GOP Senators are taking a hard line against TikTok and defying President Trump who wants to delay the app from getting banned with Sens. Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham leading the charge

The bill would “suspend normal trade relations” with China and increase tariffs on all Chinese exports to the United States to at least 35 percent.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), one of the biggest China hawks in the GOP, disputed Donald Trump's goal of allowing the platform to remain online and extend the deadline for the sale.

Sen. Tom Cotton urges action on TikTok, citing national security risks and its harmful impact on American youth.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which many Republicans, including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, have decried as having “significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” No critic has been louder than Tom Cotton, who says TikTok is “a Chinese Communist spy app” that “ endangers our national security and poisons our children .”

Senator, I'm Singaporean refers to a catchphrase taken from a moment during the January 2024 U.S. Senate hearing on online child safety with TikTok CEO Sho