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The United States needs to more self sufficient and start manufacturing the goods we need right here in the U.S.A. and cut our dependence on our enemies and other foreign lands. This includes foreign oil.
U.S. becomes a net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years
Current administration is working toward energy independence.
CHINA HINTS AT DENYING AMERICANS LIFE-SAVING CORONAVIRUS DRUGS.
China's Communist Party is ratcheting up threats against the West, with a particularly nasty warning about access to
life-saving drugs aimed at the United States.
In
Xinhua, the state-run media agency that's the mouthpiece of the party, Beijing bragged that China could impose pharmaceutical export controls which would plunge America into "the mighty sea of coronavirus."
The disturbing threats made during a global pandemic as well as the scary consequences if that threat becomes real highlight just how tight China's grip is on the global supply chain. Already, the Food and Drug Administration has announced the
first drug shortage related to the coronavirus. Though it did not disclose which drug was in short supply, the FDA did say it could not access enough raw components needed
because they are made in China.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla said that America is "dangerously reliant" on China for the production of critical goods, including parts for technologies needed to fight COVID-19.
Though the United States is a global leader in research, much of the manufacturing of life-saving drugs has been foolishly moved overseas. The last American manufacturing plant to make a key component in penicillin shuttered in 2004. Since then, Communist Chinese pharmaceuticals companies have moved in and taken over, supplying between 80 percent and 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics, 70 percent of acetaminophen and about 40 percent of heparin, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the
Council on Foreign Relations.
If China makes good on its threat to cut off the United States, the results could be crippling.
As the rest of the world scrambles to contain the virus and protect its citizens from the pandemic from China, China has been busy casting itself in the role of global hero going so far as to demand a thank you for containing the virus as long as it did.
"We should say righteously that the U.S. owes China an apology, the world owes China a thank you," an editorial in Xinhua read.
Beijing's comments should concern all Americans and China is keenly aware that in a moment of crisis they can threaten to cut us off from our pharmaceutical supplies, they could trigger a domestic problem here that would make it difficult or us to confront them.
"It's a tremendous amount of leverage," Rubio said.
