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2023-02-10 Home Front: Politix

Rogers Vows to Expel All Chinese Goods from Defense Supply Chains

[Epoch Times] The Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is vowing to expel all Chinese goods and materials from the United States’s defense supply chains.

Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said that he would lead the effort to expunge China-sourced goods during a Feb. 8 hearing of the committee on the subject of defense-industrial base security.

"The greatest concern I have with the defense industrial base is our continued reliance on China as the source of raw materials," Rogers said.

"I won’t stop until we’ve completely rid the defense supply chain of Chinese goods and materials."

Rogers said that communist China still inadvertently controlled too many parts of the supply chains required to equip the military and conduct security operations.

He singled out the United States’s continued reliance on China for rare earth minerals and non-advanced semiconductor chips and said that the regime’s grip on such supplies would need to be broken.

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) maintains a tight grip on many of our material supply chains including critical minerals and semiconductors," Rogers said."We will never prevail in a conflict with China if they’re the source of our military supply."...

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-10 09:52|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Gee, then where will the IC or Cisco get its TS VoIP phones from?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-10 09:55|| 2023-02-10 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 They can use cans and string. Oh, wait.

The string is from China too...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-10 09:56|| 2023-02-10 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Thats a lot of flag officers.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-10 11:02|| 2023-02-10 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Does that include the PX?

Posted by Griter Slash1619 2023-02-10 11:38|| 2023-02-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Easy to say but I can imagine a whole lot of resistance from all the "Chinese goods" in the Pentagon and the White House.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-10 12:45|| 2023-02-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

#6 China is major source for medicines as well.

Posted by Dale 2023-02-10 12:46|| 2023-02-10 12:46|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ I have happily avoided getting any BP meds with melamine in them.

So far...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-10 13:30|| 2023-02-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Try NDMA and DMF carcinogens in your china sourced BP (and other) meds.

Posted by Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-02-10 13:34|| 2023-02-10 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Got that with the India sourced stuff. FDA was too bizzy wif COVID.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-10 13:50|| 2023-02-10 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 China is major source for medicines as well.

Not only prescription drugs, but nutraceuticals as well.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-10 13:54|| 2023-02-10 13:54|| Front Page Top

#11 The other big problem is that even if we do do this, we still have major supply chain problems in the event of war with China because we let them take over consumer manufacturing.

Bought any hand tools lately?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-02-10 16:50|| 2023-02-10 16:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Soooo Biden is out too?

Posted by Woodrow 2023-02-10 19:53|| 2023-02-10 19:53|| Front Page Top

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