WASHINGTON—The world has now woken up to the consequences of China dominating global supply chains, said White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.
“That’s kind of the state of play,” he said at an Oct. 17 event at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The world has fundamentally changed based on what we’ve observed, and the world will not go back to sleep on this.”
The comments note a contrast in global attitude to when he served at the White House during the first Trump administration.
In 2017, Navarro was a key driver directing the administration to conduct a nine-month review of the U.S. defense industrial base. The resulting 146-page report, released in the following October, identified China as “a significant and growing risk to the supply of materials and technologies deemed strategic and critical to U.S. national security.”…