To Build China’s Biotech, Just Keep Stealing: DoJ Jails Two For Spying
The trend continues. A Chinese couple indicted over biotech trade secret’s lifted from Ohio research hospital.
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CPA Applauds Bills to Combat America’s Dependence on Foreign Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded two critical pieces of legislation reintroduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that seek to combat U.S. dependence on foreign pharmaceutical supply chains and boost domestic U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing. CPA has long called for restoring domestic capability to manufacture essential generic drugs, personal protective equipment…
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Senate Panel on China Starts Calling Out American Corporations Wedded To CCP
A recent Senate Finance Committee hearing on the China threat bodes well for ongoing bipartisan support for American manufacturing. There are right ways and wrong ways to go about this. The wrong way: waiting for allies. The right way: revamping tariff laws that makes reindustrialization profitable.
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Treasury Backs Away From Action on Currency Manipulation
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has provided an early signal of the Biden administration’s approach on currencies and currency manipulation. The US apparently has little intention of using currencies to address US economic problems, including slow growth, huge trade deficits, pervasive inequality, and a lack of good jobs. The economic analysis in the new…
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CPA Letter to USTR Tai on Maintaining Green Job Intensity on Par with Climate Goals
CPA sent the following the letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai urging that the emphasis on the transition to and growth of domestic “green” industrial production is the same as the intensity and dedication given to achieving climate goals. Dear Ambassador Tai: We appreciate your recent remarks at an event titled “Greening U.S. Trade…
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Apple, Tesla CEOs Listen In As Xi Jinping Blasts U.S. ‘Cold War’
Striking all the right chords and buzzwords, China leader Xi Jinping says what the world needs now is love sweet love. Who’s buying?
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CPA Bolsters Staff with New Economist & National Security Hires
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) continues to expand its Economic Research and Government Relations Teams to support its advocacy for trade and industrial policies to re-establish America’s prosperity and world-leading economic growth. Amanda Mayoral has joined CPA as Economist and Robby Smith has joined in a new role as National Security…
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Biden Administration Undercuts Efforts to Rebuild U.S. Medical Supply Chains: Withdraws Proposal on WTO Government Procurement Agreement
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today criticized the Biden administration for undercutting a campaign promise to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to spur investment in the U.S. rather than continue our dependence on foreign supply chains. According to Bloomberg, the Biden administration has withdrawn a World Trade Organization…
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Do You Know Where Your Hamburger Was Made?
A look at the destructive pricing pressures on American cattle ranchers, and the minority and tribal groups that depend on them. Are we outsourcing cattle ranching in the name of climate change?
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Katherine Tai Takes Swipe at Global Companies; Says Environmental Protection a ‘Top Priority’
For Katherine Tai and the Biden administration, environmentalism is going to be the core of trade policy. How does that square with heavy polluters like India and China?
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