TRADE POLICY SPECIALIST, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
Mike Dolan is a trade policy specialist and lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A former labor lawyer and long-time political organizer, Mike brings three decades of coalition building and activism to the fight for Fair Trade. Mike has joined the Coalition for a Prosperous America at several of our meetings from California to DC and feels strongly that if CPA didn’t exist, “we’d have to invent it.”
How did China become a near peer competitor with the U.S. on everything from computers to AI platforms to space? Theft and IP violations.
Without secure upstream API and 6-APA production, the United States does not have true antibiotic supply security. With the right policy framework and close coordination with European partners, we can rebuild domestic capacity, strengthen allied production, and secure essential medicines for the long term.
Leadership of the House Select Committee on the CCP is convinced China is stealing American AI models. That’s why China has an OpenAI rival, called DeepSeek, and the Europeans have nothing.
The findings reinforce a persistent pattern in global solar trade: when enforcement actions target specific countries, production and shipments shift to new jurisdictions.
