Editor’s Note: New report documents China’s willingness to use its dominance in rare-earth minerals as leverage against the US. The US needs to accelerate efforts to revive our sole rare-earth mine, in Mountain Pass, California. The metals are used for a variety of advanced technologies, including weapons and computer screens [Timothy Puko | June 29,…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist The United Kingdom is close to pulling out of its previous compromise solution for 5G telecom, which involved keeping Huawei at the so-called “edge” of British wireless networks. (They are still in the core of the fiber-optic network and at the edge of the Internet-to-the-home network.) But recent developments…
Editor’s Note: On Sunday June 28, CPA’s economics team presented “The Job Quality Index – A New Measure of Job Quality in the U.S. Labor Market” at the Western Economic Association International 95th Annual Conference. The Job Quality Index, developed by CPA in partnership with economists from Cornell University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City,…
Editor’s Note: There are a number of key innovations that will help the US and its allies kick Huawei out of the world’s 5G networks and CPA member Parallel Wireless is at the leading edge of this fight. Can a new mobile-network technology get the United States back in the 5G race? [Jeanne Whalen |…
Editor’s note: There will be many more prosecutions as the FBI has an astounding 2000 China investigations open. China’s ambassador in Washington and a Chinese diplomat in New York City secretly aided in the recruitment of scientists in the United States, according to the FBI. [Caitlin Yilek& Jerry Dunleavy | June 25, 2020 | Washington…
Editor’s note: Business consultants are recommending diversifying from China. But they still don’t have the national interest in building our jobs and our economy in their reports. ‘State of Logistics Report’ says ‘painful and chaotic’ 2020 will likely lead to more stockpiling, shifts in manufacturing [Jennifer Smith | June 23, 2020 | WSJ] Businesses reeling…
Editors note: We are starting to get serious about re-shoring. WASHINGTON — U.S. government financing for projects to return critical supply chains to the United States as part of coronavirus response efforts could reach tens of billions of dollars and clients may include a projected $12 billion Taiwanese semiconductor plant, the head of the agency…
Washington. The following statement can be attributed to Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. “CPA is very disappointed with Speaker Pelosi’s actions to prevent a vote on WTO withdrawal today. The WTO agreement voted upon by Congress in 1994 provided for a guaranteed vote every five years in the House and the…
Editor’s note: CPA board member Bill Parks concisely shows, in this Financial Times letter to the editor, why sales apportioned taxation fixes most of the important global and domestic taxation problems. In his new letter to European finance ministers, US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin (FT View, June 19) declared an impasse in talks to adopt…
Editor’s note: The major meatpackers in the US are foreign-owned, or they are stateless multinationals. Their warnings of meat shortages while exporting more to China are another reason that they shouldn’t be trusted. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker questioned how companies could warn of pandemic shortages while exporting record amounts of pork to China.…
