POLICY ADVISOR, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL ENGINEERS (IFPTE)
Stan Sorscher is Policy Advisor for the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), a union representing 80,000 workers around the country. Stan has a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley, and lives in Seattle WA.
He served on the Executive Board of the Washington State Labor Council, and was a founding Board member of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition. He represented organized labor on the Puget Sound Regional Council Economic Development District Board. Stan was appointed by the Governor of Washington to the Washington Council on Aerospace, the Board of the Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington, and the Future of Work Task Force.
Stan has been active on trade policy, immigration policy for high-tech workers, workforce development, and has advocated for manufacturing strategies and industrial policy to rebuild US industrial capacity.
Everyone agrees, in particular that reliance on China for key ingredients used to make medicines is risky; and everyone agrees that further up market – in advanced biotech – China is becoming an unmatched rival that could easily shrink America’s role in drug innovation.
The report finds that China has consolidated global dominance in the midstream stages of battery supply chains—refining and chemical conversion—giving the Chinese Communist Party significant influence over pricing, supply availability, and industrial investment.
This bipartisan letter from the Senate Banking Committee is a powerful signal that Congress is finally taking seriously what CPA has been warning about for years: the Chinese Communist Party has been exploiting America’s capital markets to fund its military modernization, underwrite its surveillance state, and enrich entities engaged in genocide, forced labor, and espionage — all with American investor capital.
Should Chinese organizations and individuals be allowed to donate to American colleges, and should their PhD students have access to scientific research grants? It’s not an easy question to answer.
