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To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico
An Integrated North America Is the Solution to Supply Chain Insecurity
If there is broad bipartisan agreement on anything in Washington today, it is that the United States has become dangerously dependent on Chinese production.
- Roberta Jacobson and Tom Wyler
- Foreign Affairs
N-95 masks, essential drugs, components for lifesaving technologies, and even smartphones are all at least partially made in China.
COVID-19 laid bare the vulnerability of these sprawling and unaccountable supply chains: when vital products or components are needed most, there is no guarantee that Chinese companies will make them available.
But if COVID-19 has…