Covid Supply Chain Crunch: Asian-Made PPE Stuck at Ports, Supplies Late

Recent supply chain bottlenecks of hospital gear shows why continued dependence on Asia is bad for pandemic preparedness. The Make PPE in America Act in the infrastructure law should remedy this in the years ahead, if Congress doesn’t open the doors to duty-free PPE and undercut the law’s intent.

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CPA Applauds Passage of Bipartisan, Bicameral Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, bipartisan legislation which will ensure that goods tainted with the forced labor of Uyghurs, and others, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) — and elsewhere in…

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CPA on NDAA: Bill Includes Important Provisions and Missed Opportunities

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) praised certain provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was passed by both houses of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Biden shortly. Those provisions included measures that will increase procurement of domestically manufactured goods and address the growing…

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CPA To BlackRock: Stop Helping Fund the CCP’s Genocide & Efforts to Undermine U.S. Economic & National Security

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today asked BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to stop aiding and abetting human rights abuses and national security risks associated by including Chinese companies in BlackRock’s iShares Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). BlackRock, which is the world’s largest asset manager, surprisingly recommended earlier this year that investors triple their…

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CPA Comment Letter to the Department of Labor Regarding Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Factors

CPA National Security Advisor Robby Stephany Smith submitted the following comment letter to the Department of Labor requesting that Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) include the following factors when providing greater guidance to fiduciaries: national security risks; political risks; existing sanctions on related entities or persons; human rights violations; linkages to state-owned or state-controlled industries…

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CPA Welcomes Biden Administration Action to Impose Capital Markets Sanctions on CCP’s SenseTime

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today welcomed the action by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to add China’s artificial intelligence company SenseTime to OFAC’s Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List (NS-CMIC List) due to the company’s connection to the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights…

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