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US is facing supply chain challenges, but so is China, experts say

South China Morning Post 06.13.2022 1 min read
The Port of Long Beach in California. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission held hearings on Thursday about the challenges of developing alternative supply chains for the US to replace a dependence on China. Photo: Bloomberg
The Port of Long Beach in California. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission held hearings on Thursday about the challenges of developing alternative supply chains for the US to replace a dependence on China. Photo: Bloomberg
The Port of Long Beach in California. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission held hearings on Thursday about the challenges of developing alternative supply chains for the US to replace a dependence on China. Photo: Bloomberg
  • Witnesses tell the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission that US and China remain interdependent in many sectors and hard to decouple
  • ‘It is in our own national interest to find ways to reduce China’s sense of insecurity,’ one expert argues

While the US is rightly concerned about protecting and developing its supply chain to make it less dependent on China, policymakers should remember that China has large supply chain problems of its own.
That was one message experts brought on Thursday to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), the government’s leading advisory panel on China policy.
Another, though, was that the US and China remain interdependent in many sectors, complicating any US initiatives to build alternative supply chains or decouple from China.

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