WARNER STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S VISIT TO BEIJING

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Mark R. Warner issued the following press release:

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement:

"Any meeting between the President of the United States and President Xi Jinping carries enormous consequences for our economy, our national security, and the world. As President Trump arrives in Beijing, he must be clear-eyed about who and what he is dealing with. President Xi heads the Chinese Communist Party, an authoritarian regime that leverages every instrument of state power - including economic coercion, intellectual property theft, military expansion, censorship, and political and humanitarian repression - to undermine American ...