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389: Fix Your World. "Super Power in Peril." With Dave McCormick

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CHAPTER

Strategic Approaches to Addressing China's Global Influence

This chapter explores the geopolitical implications of China's influence and the significance of decoupling in essential industries. It highlights the need for strategic alliances and accountability, particularly in response to China's role during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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then just broadly speaking, China. Like, I mean, I think first of all, people don't recognize, there's plenty of people that don't recognize what's happening with China. You already went into what China's doing, what they've been doing and what they're trying to do. It's really obvious to anybody that pays attention to this kind of thing. So what do we do in broadly speaking for China? China has a plan. We don't have a plan. So
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for us, I think there's three or four things we need to do. First, we need to strategically decouple. What does that mean? Semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, satellites, 5G. We can't be dependent on China for those things. We need to either have those things at home or we need to have those supply chains in the hands of our closest allies. Second, we can't invest in Chinese companies that are doing things that are in direct support of the PLA or the Communist Party. So right today, in California, in the Silicon Valley, there are companies that are investing in artificial intelligent companies in China that do business with the Communist Party. We can't do that. We have to stop that. There needs to be a review process that stops that. We need to hold China accountable for bad behavior. COVID is the best example. So here we go. Three years ago, it was suggested that maybe the virus that started in Wuhan might be affiliated with the Wuhan lab that does research on such viruses. That was heresy. The liberal media went crazy on that. Here we are three years later, the intelligence services say that's a strong possibility. So we got to hold China accountable for those kinds of things by sanctioning them and calling it out. We're not even calling it out. And then the fourth thing we need to do is have a smart ally strategy with Australia and Japan and South Korea to really isolate China in the South Pacific and really build alliances that give us added power. Those are the four things we need to do. Now, here's the rub. I'm not saying, and some of my colleagues and friends are, that we should cut off all relationships with China. I think we have to coexist with China economically, too. So in York, Pennsylvania, in one day, I walk into a manufacturing shop. Those Chinese, they're dumping on steel. We got to sanction them. We got to stop globalization. We got to go after the Chinese. I'm running as a kid. I hear you. I go next door. It's a machine shop that builds racks for Harley Davidson motorcycles. Harley Davidson's based in New York. They build motorcycles. And the guy says, whatever you do, don't mess around with China. That's our biggest market. So that's the reality of manufacturing. So I'm not making the case that we need to stop all trade with China. I am making the case China's a threat and we have to make sure the most strategic things are done here at home and hold China accountable.

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