President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), a vocal critic of communist China, to serve as his national security adviser, Reuters said on Monday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Waltz, who won reelection last week for his fourth term representing the Sixth Congressional District in east-central Florida, was the first Green Beret elected to Congress. He has been chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
He is also a member of the House China Task Force. In 2021, he released a video on social media platform X saying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the “biggest threat America has ever faced.”…