Analysts said Waltz would fit in with Trump’s hard line on China as US national security adviser

Waltz has been an ardent supporter of Trump and a vocal critic of President Joe Biden and is known to be skeptical of U.S. aid to Ukraine.

When it comes to China, he is considered one of the most combative members of Congress. He is a member of the House Republicans’ China Task Force, which is examining how Washington should compete with Beijing.

In 2021, he called on the US to boycott the Beijing-hosted Winter Olympics, introducing the resolution by saying the Chinese Community Party (CCP) had “committed a series of heinous acts in the last year alone, inspired by the Chinese Communist Party.” “The 2022 Winter Olympics” should be disqualified from hosting the Winter Olympics.

“The world cannot legitimize by sending delegations the CCP’s acts of genocide in Xinjiang, the destruction of Hong Kong’s democratic rights, and the dangerous suppression of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that has cost lives [the Games in] Beijing,” he said.

According to the Financial Times, he said China was an “existential threat” to U.S. interests and that Washington needed to make “significant investments in our own preparedness.”