[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."...