Posted on 08/28/2020 10:36:16 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
China may restrict American access to medical supplies in retaliation for intensifying U.S. regulations on Huawei, according to a prominent economist and Chinese Communist Party adviser.
“For vitamins and antibiotics, more than 90% of their raw materials are produced in China,” Tsinghua University finance professor Li Daokui said in response to new regulations targeting the flagship telecommunications company. “The U.S. will definitely not be able to produce them in the short term.”
Li’s comments evoke the thinly veiled threats that state-run media issued earlier this year as international anger raged over China’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic in the initial days of the crisis. He spoke after Commerce Department officials unveiled new regulations designed to make it more difficult for Huawei to obtain electronic supplies derived from U.S. technology, in keeping with American warnings that the telecommunications giant is a platform for Chinese spy services.
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Cool.
Bring the manufacturing home.
I hope they do. We need to be making our own medical supplies anyway. If ANYTHING is a national security issue, that is.
I LOVE the idea in your 2nd sentence!
I don’t think so.
I think it morphed back into a Chinese Imperial System. Mandarins are replaced with Party Members, and the Chairman is Emperor who rules by the Mandate of Heaven.
Which, hopefully, Xi is about to lose.
I wonder what future historians will call this (short-lived) dynasty?
Win-win as far as I am concerned.
Japs were making F1 cars in the 60s. Seikowas making professional dive watches as good as Swiss in the 60s. Made in Japan was a joke because of Western chauvinism. There is no comparison, in engineering prowess, between the Japanese and China.
“A new Manhattan Project in the offing.”
It would have to be that scale of commitment to accomplish self sufficiency of supply chain within 5 years.
Whole lot of pain between now and then though.
And those raw materials have been washed by floods into the South China Sea. And speaking of floods, how's that Three Gorge's Dam doing these days?
This is the direct result of globalist policies.
The poison dream of Cheap Labor is killing America's independence.
True.
However, Cheap Labor globalists sold out Americans a long time ago, making them dependent on hostile countries for basic and fundamental things.
Old made in Japan stuff I wish I had.
Go ahead Xi, we dare you.
See how that works out after 100 years of American antipathy and rage.
Exactamundo! This is the ultimate solution and should be extended to any nation that supports Marxism.
“They were also selling a lot of cheap pot metal stuff because that’s what we would import from them. It would take more than 15 years for the many Pacific War vetarans and their families to want to throw money their way.”
There were some who went the entire rest of their lives avoiding Jap products.
Yep
I have a pair of old Yamaha Skis.
They made musical instruments and IC engines.
They knew their dynamic, vibrational tech.
In the short term, there are other countries that we could buy from....Germany, India, etc. Meanwhile, we could immediately pass the mandate (which we’re going to pass anyway) that all sources of antibiotics and other key medicines purchased by the federal government be from domestic sources.
The fact that Chinese officials would even hint of trying to use this as leverage as they have done multiple times now is all the evidence anyone needs that we need to eliminate our reliance on China - not reduce, eliminate.
Well, there's a business plan.
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