Witnesses testified to the threat of China’s supply chain dominance before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Thursday, highlighting the need to bolster domestic manufacturing.
The commission’s investigation comes as the global supply chain has been buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical conflict. Though the phrase “supply chain issues” has so deeply saturated our collective awareness that it’s an easy punchline, the world continues to grapple with its serious consequences (shortages of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, rare earths, etc.). And these problems aren’t going away.
