The coronavirus pandemic has underscored the need for the United States to move away from its reliance on communist China, Indian American Republican politician Nikki Haley said on Tuesday.
“While Beijing has abused the free market in order to destroy it, America must harness the free market to protect our freedom and national security,” Nikki Haley, a former Governor of South Carolina and US Ambassador to the United Nations said in an op-ed on Medium. The United States, she said, should start by setting up stronger guardrails to prevent China from exploiting America’s economic openness and punish it for its predatory actions.
“It involves pushing back against Beijing’s manipulation of international forums like the World Trade Organization. It means ensuring that our most important security-related industries – from essential medicine to semiconductors – have American-friendly supply chains, instead of depending on an authoritarian rival state,” she wrote.

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