The American Economic Liberties Project and our friends at The American Prospect are teaming up for a virtual event on Tuesday, March 17 at 3pm ET. We’re calling it Concentrated Power & Coronavirus and we'll be joined by Congressman Mark Pocan (D - Wis.), who on Friday joined 56 of his House colleagues in calling for mass domestic production of vital medical supplies under the Defense Production Act.
The coronavirus is a serious threat to millions of people’s health. And it is also revealing that there are major issues with the way we make and distribute medicine and other key goods. Over 90% of the chemicals that go into our medicine come from China, which was temporarily shut down. China’s Hubei Province, hit hard by the virus, is the location of at least 12 drug plants supplying the US with everything from painkillers to antibiotics. Pharmacists and doctors are beginning to notice shortages, in what one trade publication calls the “pharmaceutical version of The Hunger Games.”
And it’s not just medicine. We are dependent on Chinese production for everything from bibles to batteries to parts for advanced drones and missiles. The shutdown of production and trade as a result of the coronavirus reveals how our everyday lives and national security are dependent on China.
Join The American Prospect and the American Economic Liberties Project to discuss this problem and ask Representative Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Economic Liberties Senior Fellow Lucas Kunce, and the Brookings Institution's Rush Doshi your questions about the current crisis. How can we restore resiliency and redundancy to our supply chains? What are the best tools for our policymakers in addressing the current crisis?
RSVP here for Concentrated Power & Coronavirus, and we’ll send you an email about how to participate. That’s Tuesday, March 17 at 3pm ET.
About the Speakers
Congressman Mark Pocan was sworn in as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s second congressional district in 2013 following 14 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. A small business owner, union member, and lifelong advocate for progressive causes, Rep. Pocan is committed to using his experience from both the private and public sectors to fight for policies that promote economic and social justice and support the families of south central Wisconsin.
Lucas Kunce is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, a Marine veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and worked as an International Negotiations Officer on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon. He is an attorney and a writer focusing on the impact financialization and consolidation have on national security. He has submitted work to the FTC on how the right to repair affects the military and he has been published in the New York Times and The American Conservative, including a long-form piece on monopolization and national security with the American Economic Liberties Project's Matt Stoller.
Rush Doshi is the director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow in Brookings Foreign Policy. He is also a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. His research focuses on Chinese grand strategy as well as Indo-Pacific security issues. As director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative, Doshi leads an effort that analyzes Mandarin-language open sources and Chinese behavior to understand the evolving military, economic, political, and informational components of Chinese grand strategy. Doshi also co-leads a Brookings Foreign Policy-wide initiative, Global China, focused on the implications of China’s growing global influence. At the Paul Tsai China Center, Doshi manages a project that seeks to audit and improve U.S.-China risk reduction and crisis management mechanisms. Doshi is currently special advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
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