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China's dominance of global military supply chains, including parts for ammunition and missiles, is increasingly threatening the national security of the United States and its vital domestic manufacturing enterprises, said Friday the Trump government.
"China represents a significant and growing risk for the supply of materials and technologies deemed strategic and crucial to the national security of the United States," said a Pentagon report commissioned by Donald Trump and released Friday.
Public censorship is the White House's latest effort to denounce rising tensions in relations between the United States and Beijing, which has failed this year on trade, security issues in the sea. South China and accusations of espionage and political interference.
The report, which has 140 pages and took a year to write, revealed that China dominated key sectors such as rare earth metal mining used in high-tech defense equipment and was often the most important the only supplier of specialty chemicals used in ammunition and missiles. .
"A sudden and catastrophic loss of supply would disrupt DoD's missile, satellite, space launch, and other programs," the report warns that in many cases, no substitute n is available.
The report revealed that the United States was exposed to nearly 300 such vulnerabilities, ranging from "dependencies of foreign manufacturers to impending labor shortages," wrote Thursday US Trade Counselor Peter Navarro in the New York Times.
The White House later stated that secretaries for defense, trade, energy and labor were taking steps to implement the recommendations of the "historic" report.
According to the report, China's "capture" of foreign technologies and intellectual property included the "systematic theft of US weapons systems," saying it had eroded the military balance between the United States and China.
But the report also revealed that the US government was struggling to deter domestic companies from setting up in China to take advantage of lower costs and the conclusion of technology transfer agreements required by Beijing, but which, according to the US United States, undermine national security.
"[C]Managers and their shareholders will have to evaluate to what extent they want to be part of society. [China’s] military-industrial complex, "says the report, which calls on Western companies to reconsider the possibility of basing their manufacturing activities in China.
"China has forced many US companies to relocate their R & D activities in exchange for access to the Chinese market," he said, highlighting one of the reasons why US companies would probably hesitate to cancel their years of relocation.
US companies, however, should welcome the other parts of the report, including a recommendation to create a national advanced manufacturing strategy and an incentive to invest more in skills, learning science, technology, technology and technology. Engineering and training in mathematics.
The Pentagon is seeking to reorient its resources to focus on the long-term threat China poses to the global dominance of the United States following years of long and relatively un-technical wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. East.
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Eric Chewning, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Industrial Policy, said China was deliberately pursuing "its strategies of economic aggression and its complementary military modernization efforts," e-mailed the Financial Times.
"By actively promoting the fusion of its military and civilian, industrial and scientific and technological sectors, Beijing is working to strengthen the capacity of the People's Republic of China to transform the country into an economic, technological and military power while ensuring the general control of these elements of peace, the national power remains firmly in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, "he said.
The report says that China's actions have already eliminated some US supply chains, such as military-grade solar cells and flat-screen aircraft screens. Beijing's actions "seriously threaten" other declining domestic capabilities for the production of machine tools, biomaterials, circuit boards and semiconductors.
It contained particularly strong warnings about the risk posed by China's growing technological prowess. "The loss of US leadership in the industries of the future such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and robotics" is at risk, the report said, noting that this would redefine the field of battle of this century.
Many manufacturers in the defense supply chain did not have the ability to defend themselves against cyber attacks, he added.
Mr Chewning said that US allies such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Australia were all acting at home to try to counter the threat from China.
But in parallel with excessive dependence on China, the report also noted that the United States depended on Germany for night vision systems and Japan for the carbon fiber needed for manufacturing missiles, aircraft, space systems and explosives.
Additional report by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York
