Rigging The Game: How China Undermined Western Manufacturing and Helped Hollow Out American Industry
Today, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Ro Khanna (D-CA) of the House Select Committee on China released Rigging the Game: How China Undermined Western Manufacturing and Helped Hollow Out American Industry. This new bipartisan report focuses on four case studies: the biomanufacturing, aerospace, semiconductor, and machine tool industries. Through these case studies, it details the painful consequences of American deindustrialization while analyzing the CCP's deliberate central planning system to jumpstart its manufacturing base.
"American workers and our ability to innovate are the best in the world. However, our manufacturing base has been hollowed out by China’s predatory trade practices and massive subsidies. We must reindustrialize America, so we are never reliant on China to make the vital products our country needs,” said Moolenaar. “America is blessed with amazing resources, talent, and capacity. We can revitalize our manufacturing base, and outcompete China with our skilled workforce and American ingenuity.”
“Over decades, the CCP has identified strategic industries and technologies, and sought to dominate them. Unfortunately, America’s workers, communities, and security have paid the price. As China intensifies its efforts to win the innovation competition and monopolize key supply chains, we must learn from the past and invest in the future,” said Khanna.
In addition to the case studies, the report makes the following findings:
- China has built a state-directed economic system designed to concentrate capital, resources, technology, and global market share in strategically important industries.
- China engages in a whole-of-society effort when it seeks to dominate certain important global industries, combining a series of interlocking measures to accelerate the growth of targeted industries.
- China seeks to make the world dependent on Chinese manufacturing, while it eliminates its own foreign policy supply chain dependencies.
Read the full report here.