Article snippet: However, according to U.S. attendees, there was no big showdown. Rather, there was a sense of shared concern about China among top U.S. allies at the annual conference, they said. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who led a congressional delegation to the conference, said in previous years there was a lot more focus on Russia, but that this year there was more talk about the threat from China. “Russia is kind of like seen as a problem across the board, [but] China is becoming more of a problem across the board,” Graham told journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Post, who traveled with him to the conference. Graham openly slammed China during the first day of the international conference in a high-level panel with the Norwegian prime minister and the foreign ministers of France, Poland, Canada, and Japan. “We see economic espionage by China as a real threat to our economy. We see the way they manipulate their currency, and steal intellectual property, and require American companies to have a Chinese owner that wind up stealing everything you got. We see their technology being used more for spying than technology,” he said. Graham said it was clear to countries that “when you integrate with the Chinese economy, you’re probably integrating into a system that’s rigged against you.” “If you’re going to hook your wagon to some group, who would you hook your wagon to? Us, right?” he added. “There’s a limit on Chinese influence.” Gra... Link to the full article to read more