WASHINGTON—A former Department of Commerce official recently stressed the urgency of the threat of U.S. supply chain dependence on communist China.
“We are running out of time. We really need to race to solve this,” Nazak Nikakhtar, former assistant secretary for Industry and Analysis during the first Trump administration, recently told EpochTV‘s “American Thought Leaders,” adding that the problem had been neglected for “at least two decades.”
According to Nikakhtar, the issue stems from the deliberate strategic actions of the Chinese communist regime. She said that for many years, Beijing has engaged in unfair trade practices—often paying subsidiaries to flood the global market with cheap made-in-China products that others can’t compete with, thereby gaining control of an industry’s supply chain and moving on to undercut the next one....
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