{"id":1363520,"date":"2022-03-08T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363520"},"modified":"2022-03-08T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:16:18","slug":"sen-tom-cotton-we-ought-to-ban-u-s-investment-in-strategic-chinese-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tom-cotton-we-ought-to-ban-u-s-investment-in-strategic-chinese-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tom Cotton: \u2018We Ought to Ban U.S. Investment in Strategic Chinese Industries\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-tom-cotton-we-ought-to-ban-u-s-investment-in-strategic-chinese-industries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363520&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for a ban on United States investments in strategic Chinese industries on Monday evening during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton delivered his speech as\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/programs-events\/events-calendar\/onstage-at-the-reagan-library-with-senator-tom-cotton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part<\/a>\u00a0of the Reagan Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<em>Time for Choosing Speaker Series<\/em>, where Republican politicians address fundamental questions about the Republican Party. Cotton touched on the threat the Chinese Communist Party poses to the United States, President Joe Biden\u2019s failed foreign policy, the crisis at our southern border, and education during his speech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While speaking about China, Cotton\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ot4baeQGHUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a>\u00a0the country\u2019s entrance into the World Trade Organization \u201cone of the single worst mistakes of this generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, both parties are complicit in one of the single worst mistakes of this generation: granting Communist China permanent Most Favored Nation status and admitting it into the World Trade Organization. Now China is our most dangerous enemy. Since then, China\u2019s economy has grown 12 times over. China is now the largest exporter in the world and controls over a quarter of global trade. It\u2019s done so by waging a brutal economic world war.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton called out the Chinese Communist Party for committing \u201cevery economic crime in the book,\u201d including \u201cproduct dumping, intellectual-property theft, illegal subsidies, economic espionage, currency manipulation, even using slave labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo country has been harmed more by China\u2019s crimes than our own. China\u2019s entry into the WTO in 2001 began a hollowing out of America\u2019s industrial base, economy, and working-class,\u201d he\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ot4baeQGHUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He went on to call for an end to our economic reliance on China.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the name of security, fairness, justice, and prosperity for our people, it\u2019s time to end our economic reliance on China\u2014and decouple our supply chains. But decoupling is not enough. We ought to ban U.S. investment in strategic Chinese industries and encourage reshoring of U.S. factories and jobs\u2014and punish off-shoring to China. Further, we need to scrutinize and regulate Chinese investment in America much more closely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton also called out Biden for \u201crecklessly\u201d withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and his \u201cweakness\u201d regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just last year, Joe Biden recklessly withdrew from Afghanistan, throwing away two decades of American sacrifice. He abandoned hundreds of Americans and thousands of brave Afghans who fought alongside us. Our Afghan allies were left at the mercy of barbarians. President Biden\u2019s incompetence cost us thirteen brave American troops and humiliated American power before the world. Yet he called the debacle an \u201cextraordinary success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton said that Biden\u2019s weakness towards Putin led to his \u201cunprovoked, naked war of aggression.\u201d \u201cIf Joe Biden won\u2019t make him pay, the Republican Party must,\u201d Cotton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will never accept a new Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14812647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/10\/Tom-Cotton.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe(R-TX) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On immigration, Cotton called for an end to chain migration in favor of a move towards a skills-based admission system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We must reform our legal immigration system by ending chain migration, which allows a single migrant to bring in extended family members, who in turn do the same. When so many impressive and highly skilled foreigners yearn to immigrate, it\u2019s both unfair and unwise to admit new immigrants solely because of ties of blood. We should allow immigrants to bring their spouses and minor children, but that\u2019s where the chain should end. We should replace chain migration with a skills-based system that selects immigrants with valuable skills, English-language ability, and the like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton also said the United States needs to mandate E-verify to prevent illegal immigrants from working in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that globalist CEOs who complain about American workers will protest this policy, but here\u2019s my answer: invest more in American workers, pay them more, and treat them better,\u201d Cotton said. \u201cThe days of importing their replacements must come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton also attacked the \u201cDemocrats and their bosses in the teacher\u2019s unions\u201d for masking school children and promoting critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of America\u2019s parents, the Republican Party should make clear that shutdowns and mask mandates will never return, and our kids will get back to normal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For years, our kids have lagged behind in basic achievement. Now, radical activists are shutting down AP and gifted-and-talented programs because they don\u2019t like the racial mix of students in them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>These same radicals who can\u2019t teach our kids to read or do long division would, however, teach them to have contempt for their parents\u2019 beliefs and customs. They indoctrinate our kids with their extremist theories about race and sex. They preach that America is racist and that we should be ashamed of our country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll remove Critical Race Theory from our schools and teach kids to venerate our Declaration of Independence and Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s dream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cotton\u2019s full speech can be viewed\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ot4baeQGHUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for a ban on United States investments in strategic Chinese industries on Monday evening during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. 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