WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today issued a statement applauding the Trump administration for its clear-eyed leadership in confronting China’s economic aggression and reaffirming the need to strengthen America’s industrial base, rebuild domestic capacity, and safeguard the nation’s economic and national security.
Following today’s press conference by U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, CPA strongly supports the administration’s determination to end decades of failed engagement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and build a new American economic model rooted in production, security, and independence.
“CPA strongly supports Ambassador Greer and Secretary Bessent’s commitment to restoring America’s economic sovereignty,” said Zach Mottl, Chairman of CPA. “We are no longer in a world where free trade at any cost serves America’s interests. We are in a world where economic strength, production, and national security are one and the same. The era of global dependency on the CCP is over. For decades, Wall Street, multinational corporations, and globalist institutions helped finance China’s rise at the direct expense of American workers, manufacturers, and national security. The Trump administration must take bold, decisive action to decouple from China and prioritize the American worker, the American producer, and the American nation.”
Decoupling from China is not only an economic imperative but a national security necessity. CPA has consistently argued that economic security is national security, and that rebuilding the U.S. industrial base is the only path toward sustainable prosperity. The CCP’s state-directed model continues to weaponize trade, technology, and capital flows against the United States, seeking dominance in critical sectors like semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.
The Trump administration should make it explicitly clear that China’s reported investment offer in exchange for lifting U.S. security measures is a non-starter. As recent reporting from Bloomberg makes clear, Beijing’s so-called “investment pledges” are an attempt to weaken U.S. trade restrictions and regain unfettered access to American markets and technology. Accepting such an offer would risk undoing the progress made to protect critical industries and would once again give the CCP leverage over America’s economic and national security. The administration must stand firm: American independence is not for sale.
“The Trump administration is right to pursue an America First trade and industrial policy that serves the national interest, not Beijing’s,” said Jon Toomey, President of CPA. “CPA looks forward to continuing to work with the administration to ensure that tariffs, industrial policies, and capital market reforms deliver for American workers, producers, and communities — and that the United States remains a sovereign industrial power, free from the control or coercion of the CCP.”
Earlier this year, CPA released a report by its economics team titled, “How Managed Trade Can Stop the Next China Shock.” China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 initiated the first “China Shock,” which triggered the closure of tens of thousands of U.S. factories. Now, a second China Shock is underway—one driven not by cheap consumer goods, but by industrial overcapacity in high-tech sectors like electric vehicles, solar panels, and semiconductors that threatens to destabilize global trade.
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