The United States is facing a new form of strategic dependence: Chinese-linked firms are reentering critical American industries through influence and control rather than visible ownership.
The current cost-of-living crisis ā defined by the soaring cost of essential services ā is not the result of excessive consumer demand or short-term inflation shocks. It is the product of decades of trade and industrial policy choices that weakened middle-class wage growth.
CPA welcomed final passage this week of the āNational Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2026,ā (S.1071), which has been sent to President Trumpās desk for signature. The legislation advances critical national security priorities, strengthens U.S. defense readiness, raises troop pay by 3.8%, and reinforces the importance of resilient domestic supply chains and robust U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Chinaās foray into the automotive industry makes perfect sense for any serious, powerful economy. Every major economic power has its own car brands. China has them now, in droves.
The U.S. goods deficit with China fell by roughly $2 billion in September, coming in at $15.03 billion. China has dropped to fourth place in terms of the countries in which the U.S. has its biggest goods gap.
A proposed 807-mile natural gas pipeline intended to bring gas from Alaskaās North Slope to a new export terminal in the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska will be fabricated in Korea despite the Administrationās headline āfifty percentā steel tariff.
China is beating the U.S. to the Moon, namely the dark side of the Moon we never see from Earth. Itās colder there. And darker. And China has the energy technologies theyāve invented themselves to make machines work there. We do not.
Democrats on the House Committee on Small Business kept to their year-long messaging that tariffs are raising costs and hurting companies. There were many interesting themes from the Nov. 20 hearing titled How Main Street is Revitalizing Domestic Manufacturing.
The affordability crisis is primarily a result of price increases in five major sectors of consumer spending: housing, food, health care, child care, and energy. In none of those sectors are tariffs a significant factor.
To trade away aluminum and steel workersā home market in exchange for padding Big Techās bottom line overseas is immoral and wrong. The Section 232 actions on aluminum and steel should be singularly focused on rebuilding domestic output across the supply chains, not used as leverage to help Google and Meta become even more profitable.
