Americans Are S**k Of Being Dependent On China…Could C****av***s Lead To The End Of An Era?
Mar 26, 2020 22:05:33 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Americans Are S**k Of Being Dependent On China…Could C****av***s Lead To The End Of An Era?
(Tea Party 247) – There has long been animosity among Americans towards our reliance on China for cheap goods, but never before has it been so abundantly apparent that this relationship needs to end.
We should never again be dependent on this lying regime.
Fortunately, it appears the tide may be turning.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner recently told the Washington Examiner that American companies who are producing cheap essential goods in China are going to need to bring their operations back home.
“We’re staring into a significant, significant crisis of supply chain,” he said. “Cheap labor or cheap manufacturing be damned if you are reliant on them for your life and livelihood.”
The Examiner notes that:
Gardner’s warning was spurred by the shortage of hospital masks in the United States, a dearth driven by Beijing’s refusal to allow American companies that make the products in China to ship them out of the country amid the c****av***s p******c. And he’s not alone in that sentiment, raising the possibility that anger over China’s self-interested response to the c****av***s outbreak could produce one of the most dramatic alterations of global economics in decades.
“Because of the c****av***s problem, people are recognizing that any supply chain that has single points of failure is incredibly vulnerable,” the Heritage Foundation’s Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow in the organization’s Asian Studies Center, told the Washington Examiner. “China is going to be very concerned about dec**pling, offshoring, [or any] redirection of investments out of China.”
The Chinese have already responded to comments from White House officials who have iterated the same views as Gardner, and they’re not happy.
“Such an attempt is by no means the right prescription amid the p******c, still less a viable way out for domestic problems the U.S. faces,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said last week. “It will only cause greater damage to the innocent American people.”
He’s not alone.
Some of our Western allies are also nervous about such a shift.
“If there is political rhetoric also pushing that trend then there is a danger, a real one, that in the medium to long-term, if this gets promoted, we will be a much less efficient world economy, which means that our own domestic economies would also be much weaker, and GDP will be lower,” European Union Ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis said while speaking to reporters last week.
The Colorado Republican dismissed that warning. “If you want to make Matchbox cars in hot wheels around the globe, fine, do it, I don’t think anybody cares where the 1986 Matchbox Maserati is coming from,” he said.
“If you’re making life-sustaining drugs solely reliant on a Chinese supply chain that could be disrupted by a c****a-type v***s that we have now seen several times this decade, you better think twice,” said Gardner, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee for East Asia. “I don’t think that’s dec**pling, I think that’s smart.”
This is to say nothing of the fact that the Chinese have lied through their teeth since day one about the c****av***s.
There’s no telling what sort of information they’re holding back about the v***s, which Western nations are now battling.
The Chinese lied to the WHO about how the v***s was contracted, doctors who first raised the alarm about the v***s have disappeared, 21 million Chinese cellphone accounts have been disconnected pointing to a far higher death rate than we can even imagine, and their “zero new cases” claim out of the Hubei province is highly dubious.
The Examiner notes that “American officials are angry that Chinese C*******t officials censored the early warnings that a new v***s had emerged in W***n. In response, fuming Chinese diplomats have accused the U.S. Army of starting the p******c while reminding the West that China controls key parts of the medical supply chain.”
“There could be nothing more ham-handed and catastrophic than for the Chinese to talk some more about ‘how the U.S. created c****av***s, and, by the way, maybe we’ll cut off pharmaceuticals,’” Cheng said. “You want to have a situation where there really is that kind of a backlash, where the U.S. actively tries to not only decouple but move specifically away from China? That’s inviting that kind of a backlash.”
Gardner says that there’s no reason to rely on China.
“We have Brazil, we have other countries around the globe where we can establish new supply chains that are much more amenable to the Western values that we share,” he told the Washington Examiner.
(Tea Party 247) – There has long been animosity among Americans towards our reliance on China for cheap goods, but never before has it been so abundantly apparent that this relationship needs to end.
We should never again be dependent on this lying regime.
Fortunately, it appears the tide may be turning.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner recently told the Washington Examiner that American companies who are producing cheap essential goods in China are going to need to bring their operations back home.
“We’re staring into a significant, significant crisis of supply chain,” he said. “Cheap labor or cheap manufacturing be damned if you are reliant on them for your life and livelihood.”
The Examiner notes that:
Gardner’s warning was spurred by the shortage of hospital masks in the United States, a dearth driven by Beijing’s refusal to allow American companies that make the products in China to ship them out of the country amid the c****av***s p******c. And he’s not alone in that sentiment, raising the possibility that anger over China’s self-interested response to the c****av***s outbreak could produce one of the most dramatic alterations of global economics in decades.
“Because of the c****av***s problem, people are recognizing that any supply chain that has single points of failure is incredibly vulnerable,” the Heritage Foundation’s Dean Cheng, a senior research fellow in the organization’s Asian Studies Center, told the Washington Examiner. “China is going to be very concerned about dec**pling, offshoring, [or any] redirection of investments out of China.”
The Chinese have already responded to comments from White House officials who have iterated the same views as Gardner, and they’re not happy.
“Such an attempt is by no means the right prescription amid the p******c, still less a viable way out for domestic problems the U.S. faces,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said last week. “It will only cause greater damage to the innocent American people.”
He’s not alone.
Some of our Western allies are also nervous about such a shift.
“If there is political rhetoric also pushing that trend then there is a danger, a real one, that in the medium to long-term, if this gets promoted, we will be a much less efficient world economy, which means that our own domestic economies would also be much weaker, and GDP will be lower,” European Union Ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis said while speaking to reporters last week.
The Colorado Republican dismissed that warning. “If you want to make Matchbox cars in hot wheels around the globe, fine, do it, I don’t think anybody cares where the 1986 Matchbox Maserati is coming from,” he said.
“If you’re making life-sustaining drugs solely reliant on a Chinese supply chain that could be disrupted by a c****a-type v***s that we have now seen several times this decade, you better think twice,” said Gardner, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee for East Asia. “I don’t think that’s dec**pling, I think that’s smart.”
This is to say nothing of the fact that the Chinese have lied through their teeth since day one about the c****av***s.
There’s no telling what sort of information they’re holding back about the v***s, which Western nations are now battling.
The Chinese lied to the WHO about how the v***s was contracted, doctors who first raised the alarm about the v***s have disappeared, 21 million Chinese cellphone accounts have been disconnected pointing to a far higher death rate than we can even imagine, and their “zero new cases” claim out of the Hubei province is highly dubious.
The Examiner notes that “American officials are angry that Chinese C*******t officials censored the early warnings that a new v***s had emerged in W***n. In response, fuming Chinese diplomats have accused the U.S. Army of starting the p******c while reminding the West that China controls key parts of the medical supply chain.”
“There could be nothing more ham-handed and catastrophic than for the Chinese to talk some more about ‘how the U.S. created c****av***s, and, by the way, maybe we’ll cut off pharmaceuticals,’” Cheng said. “You want to have a situation where there really is that kind of a backlash, where the U.S. actively tries to not only decouple but move specifically away from China? That’s inviting that kind of a backlash.”
Gardner says that there’s no reason to rely on China.
“We have Brazil, we have other countries around the globe where we can establish new supply chains that are much more amenable to the Western values that we share,” he told the Washington Examiner.
Mar 26, 2020 22:08:39 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Sen. Cotton Introduces Bill To End Dependence On China-Made Pharmaceuticals: ‘China Unleashed This Plague’
By Frank CampDailyWire.com
On Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) appeared on Fox News to speak about the ongoing C****-** p******c.
Host Steve Doocy first asked Sen. Cotton about the c****av***s relief legislation that lawmakers have been haggling over for the last several days. Cotton assured viewers that the bill isn’t the one Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proposed, and that there would be “some more money” for “people who are losing their job” and “medical equipment,” among other things.
Doocy also asked Cotton about a recent op-ed penned by the senator and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) for Fox News in which they argue that the United States must end its pharmaceutical dependence on China.
Cotton replied:
Yeah, things like antibiotics and ibuprofen and Advil are made in China for the most part. It’s time to bring that manufacturing capacity back to the United States, time to bring a lot more back to the United States from China. China unleashed this plague on the world, and there will be a reckoning when we’re on the back side of it.
In the op-ed, Cotton and Gallagher write that America’s dependence on China for pharmaceuticals poses a national security risk, and that the “low quality” of Chinese-made drugs has been dangerous in the past and could be dangerous in the future as well.
To put the Unites States’ dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals to an end, Cotton and Gallagher have introduced the “Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From China Act.”
They write:
Our bill would require federal entities like the Department of Defense, VA hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid to cut off purchases of drugs with Chinese ingredients no later than 2025. This requirement would phase in over a period of years to give drug companies time to adjust, but would put clear pressure on importers to stop doing business with the CCP. The bill also would require drug companies to label the origins of ingredients in their drugs, so U.S. consumers are better informed of where their medicine comes from and whether it’s likely to be safe.
The bill would also encourage “the medical industry to manufacture in our country again by offering full and immediate expensing of factories, warehouses and capital goods related to the manufacture of drugs and medical devices on American soil.”
Earlier in the segment, Doocy asked Cotton about the timeline for the reopening of the economy, citing President Trump’s recent remarks that he would like to see the economy reopen “in stages” starting around Easter.
Cotton replied:
Well, I’d love to see that as well, but I think we have to exercise caution, Steve. The one thing we don’t want to see is a relaxing of some of the restrictions on public activities and then a resurgence of the p******c. Ultimately, this is going to be a multifaceted response. It’s gonna require more testing and more personal protective equipment for our doctors and our nurses, making sure that none of our hospitals, whether it’s in rural Arkansas or New York City, are overwhelmed, not just by c****av***s cases, but by other cases needing intensive care.
And then also taking assessment of conditions on a regional or even local basis. Remember, the president didn’t “shut down the country.” These are decisions that are being made by governors and by mayors at the local and the state level based on conditions in their states. And ultimately, I think whenever we get back on our feet, get back to work, it’s gonna happen on a rolling basis in places that haven’t had a large outbreak or have got an outbreak under control, so you won’t just see a single, nationwide set of conditions. I think you’ll see it down to the local and state level as the president and the federal government works with our governors and our mayors.
Watch:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-cotton-introduces-bill-to-end-dependence-on-china-made-pharmaceuticals-china-unleashed-this-plague?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--J3GXQoblgihnFJnFuAhSuVZXfoZ2NEAEUfuPR1mE5cNGqmGipDhclrTctGbEb_Oy8R5nnNiqGXiDxgADPc9Dd81nKGg&_hsmi=85342558
By Frank CampDailyWire.com
On Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) appeared on Fox News to speak about the ongoing C****-** p******c.
Host Steve Doocy first asked Sen. Cotton about the c****av***s relief legislation that lawmakers have been haggling over for the last several days. Cotton assured viewers that the bill isn’t the one Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proposed, and that there would be “some more money” for “people who are losing their job” and “medical equipment,” among other things.
Doocy also asked Cotton about a recent op-ed penned by the senator and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) for Fox News in which they argue that the United States must end its pharmaceutical dependence on China.
Cotton replied:
Yeah, things like antibiotics and ibuprofen and Advil are made in China for the most part. It’s time to bring that manufacturing capacity back to the United States, time to bring a lot more back to the United States from China. China unleashed this plague on the world, and there will be a reckoning when we’re on the back side of it.
In the op-ed, Cotton and Gallagher write that America’s dependence on China for pharmaceuticals poses a national security risk, and that the “low quality” of Chinese-made drugs has been dangerous in the past and could be dangerous in the future as well.
To put the Unites States’ dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals to an end, Cotton and Gallagher have introduced the “Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From China Act.”
They write:
Our bill would require federal entities like the Department of Defense, VA hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid to cut off purchases of drugs with Chinese ingredients no later than 2025. This requirement would phase in over a period of years to give drug companies time to adjust, but would put clear pressure on importers to stop doing business with the CCP. The bill also would require drug companies to label the origins of ingredients in their drugs, so U.S. consumers are better informed of where their medicine comes from and whether it’s likely to be safe.
The bill would also encourage “the medical industry to manufacture in our country again by offering full and immediate expensing of factories, warehouses and capital goods related to the manufacture of drugs and medical devices on American soil.”
Earlier in the segment, Doocy asked Cotton about the timeline for the reopening of the economy, citing President Trump’s recent remarks that he would like to see the economy reopen “in stages” starting around Easter.
Cotton replied:
Well, I’d love to see that as well, but I think we have to exercise caution, Steve. The one thing we don’t want to see is a relaxing of some of the restrictions on public activities and then a resurgence of the p******c. Ultimately, this is going to be a multifaceted response. It’s gonna require more testing and more personal protective equipment for our doctors and our nurses, making sure that none of our hospitals, whether it’s in rural Arkansas or New York City, are overwhelmed, not just by c****av***s cases, but by other cases needing intensive care.
And then also taking assessment of conditions on a regional or even local basis. Remember, the president didn’t “shut down the country.” These are decisions that are being made by governors and by mayors at the local and the state level based on conditions in their states. And ultimately, I think whenever we get back on our feet, get back to work, it’s gonna happen on a rolling basis in places that haven’t had a large outbreak or have got an outbreak under control, so you won’t just see a single, nationwide set of conditions. I think you’ll see it down to the local and state level as the president and the federal government works with our governors and our mayors.
Watch:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-cotton-introduces-bill-to-end-dependence-on-china-made-pharmaceuticals-china-unleashed-this-plague?itm_source=parsely-api%3Futm_content%3Dnews&utm_campaign=daily_shapiro&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--J3GXQoblgihnFJnFuAhSuVZXfoZ2NEAEUfuPR1mE5cNGqmGipDhclrTctGbEb_Oy8R5nnNiqGXiDxgADPc9Dd81nKGg&_hsmi=85342558
Mar 26, 2020 22:15:02 #
dtucker300 wrote:
Sen. Cotton Introduces Bill To End Dependence On C... (show quote)
No nation should ever be this dependent on another... Especially one that is NOT a friend..
Mar 26, 2020 22:26:01 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
No nation should ever be this dependent on another... Especially one that is NOT a friend..
I agree. I have been vehemently opposed to any trade with China since Nixon. I imagine you believe me a little too extreme. Just how I feel.
Mar 26, 2020 22:30:29 #
JFlorio wrote:
I agree. I have been vehemently opposed to any trade with China since Nixon. I imagine you believe me a little too extreme. Just how I feel.
Trade is fine... Good for the economy...
Dependence is not...
China is already recovering (although the hit we took was brutal..Trillions in losses..) and is in good position to offer needed goods to many nations...
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as those needed goods are not necessities and the other nations don't become dependent...
Mar 26, 2020 22:33:17 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
No nation should ever be this dependent on another... Especially one that is NOT a friend..
Unfortunately, every country is at least partially dependent on, in one way or another, other country(s).
Mar 26, 2020 22:33:31 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
Disagree in the case with China. Anything that benefits the Chinese I am against. They are our number one enemy IMO.
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Trade is fine... Good for the economy...
Dependence is not...
China is already recovering (although the hit we took was brutal..Trillions in losses..) and is in good position to offer needed goods to many nations...
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as those needed goods are not necessities and the other nations don't become dependent...
Dependence is not...
China is already recovering (although the hit we took was brutal..Trillions in losses..) and is in good position to offer needed goods to many nations...
There's nothing wrong with this, as long as those needed goods are not necessities and the other nations don't become dependent...
Mar 26, 2020 22:48:31 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
JFlorio wrote:
Disagree in the case with China. Anything that benefits the Chinese I am against. They are our number one enemy IMO.
Economic blockades and embargoes seldom accomplish anywhere near the objectives they seek. Other countries always try to act as a go-between middleman to take advantage of or to help another country avoid the boycotts. Often one of our allies. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Mar 26, 2020 22:50:32 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
dtucker300 wrote:
Economic blockades and embargoes seldom accomplish anywhere near the objectives they seek. Other countries always try to act as a go-between middleman to take advantage of or to help another country avoid the boycotts. Often one of our allies. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Not talking about a blockade per se. just that I would make trade with China illegal. Yes, goods would be more expensive in the states but I believe worth it.
Mar 26, 2020 23:04:32 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
JFlorio wrote:
Not talking about a blockade per se. just that I would make trade with China illegal. Yes, goods would be more expensive in the states but I believe worth it.
And someone (another country) would smuggle or black-market items between the two countries.
Mar 26, 2020 23:09:33 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
dtucker300 wrote:
And someone (another country) would smuggle or black-market items between the two countries.
Possibly. But would not come close to the economic benefit China gets from us now.
Mar 26, 2020 23:13:43 #
JFlorio wrote:
Not talking about a blockade per se. just that I would make trade with China illegal. Yes, goods would be more expensive in the states but I believe worth it.
Which is exactly why China began the BRI...
Mar 26, 2020 23:40:54 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
JFlorio wrote:
Possibly. But would not come close to the economic benefit China gets from us now.
You're absolutely right. We also find out who our real friends are.
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