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Trump Administration, DoD Zero In on Threats from China

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, October 8th, 2018

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Trump Administration, DoD Zero In on Threats from China

People's Liberation Army's Bayi Building in Beijing, China. (DoD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

President Trump’s administration is making clear through recent speeches, published reports and legislation that the U.S. economy — and within it, the defense industrial base — is suffering due to a series of targeted, deliberative efforts by China.In 2017, Trump directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to lead a multi-agency analysis of the health of the domestic defense industrial base. The findings, released Oct. 4 in a report titled “Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply…

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