US Racing Against Time to Reclaim Supply Chain From China: Former Commerce Official

‘Imagine a U.S. economy with zero manufacturing,’ warns former Trump official Nazak Nikakhtar, after China announced export control on industrial diamonds.
US Racing Against Time to Reclaim Supply Chain From China: Former Commerce Official
Nazak Nikakhtar, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for industry and analysis, in Washington on Jan. 3, 2025. The Epoch Times
Terri Wu
Jan Jekielek
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WASHINGTON—A former Department of Commerce official recently stressed the urgency of the threat of U.S. supply chain dependence on communist China.

“We are running out of time. We really need to race to solve this,” Nazak Nikakhtar, former assistant secretary for Industry and Analysis during the first Trump administration, recently told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” adding that the problem had been neglected for “at least two decades.”
Terri Wu is a Washington-based freelance reporter for The Epoch Times covering education and China-related issues. Send tips to [email protected].