Dusty Johnson’s Defense Bill provisions hope to keep China as number 2 world power
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - Earlier this month South Dakota’s lone Representative Dusty Johnson attended the Veterans Affairs Annual Convention to discuss topics concerning veterans today. Among those topics was China’s role as a world power, and this past week, Johnson passed two provisions in the House’s Annual Defense Bill hoping to limit China’s shipping power.
Last week Dusty Johnson along with other members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the annual defense bill. Among the many topics included in the bill were two provisions authored by Johnson focused on China’s monopoly of shipping container production and protecting global supply Chains from China’s influence. Johnson says these provisions are important in sending a message to China that the U.S. will not allow them to continue to set the standard.
“What we’ve learned is how much China uses data and information to try and gain control and influence over the rest of the world and they’ve done it in the shipping arena too. This provision though, makes it clear that we are not going to allow China to, in essence, set global shipping rates through the use of their Shanghai Shipping Exchange,” Johnson said.
Johnson says China is manipulating the market by limiting the number of shipping containers they are manufacturing, thus creating a limited market that allows them to control prices. He says the stakes have never been higher for America as China is successfully knocking the US out of the number one world power spot.
“We know that China has more fighters, they have more ships, they have more soldiers, they have more missiles than our country does. We know that they’re a bigger trading partner with every single country in South America than we are. And we know that more Africans in public opinion surveys say that China is the leader of the world than America is,” Johnson said.
Johnson says one way Americans can help stop the Chinese communist party’s growth is to stop being so careless when using apps such as TikTok that gather personal data, as well as being more secure when working with Chinese researchers.
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