Politico | Task force: US defence firms must reduce reliance on rare earth materials from China
- The task force report focused on domestic manufacturing and Chinese influence in the US markets
- The group noted that a ‘significant amount’ of materials are ‘sole-sourced from the People’s Republic of China’
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Paul McLeary on politico.com on July 22, 2021.
The US defence industrial base should find a way to wean itself off of rare earth minerals from China, according to new recommendations from a bipartisan congressional task force.
The group noted that a “significant amount” of materials are “sole-sourced from the People’s Republic of China,” and recommended a requirement “to identify supplies and materials for major end items that come from adversarial nations and implement a plan to reduce reliance on those nations.”
It also called for the Department of Defence to “deploy the full range of American innovation to secure the supply chains involving rare earth elements,” which are critical to everything from semiconductors to building precision-guided bombs.
We do not want American pension funds, we do not want university endowments being used to build things that are designed to kill Americans