Senator Wants to Ban All Chinese Imports If China Invades Taiwan, Sanction All Chinese SOEs
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, recently introduced the Sanctions Targeting Aggressors of Neighboring Democracies (STAND) with Taiwan Act of 2022, a bill that he says "would impose crippling, comprehensive economic and financial sanctions on China in the event that the People’s…
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Liberation Army (PLA) or its proxies initiate a military invasion of the island democracy of Taiwan." Sullivan said the bill would prohibit hedge funds, venture capital firms and private equity firms from investing in any Chinese company in a Made in China 2025 priority sector and would sanction Chinese financial institutions and industrial sectors. It also would ban the importation of a good "mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in the People’s Republic of China, or by a person working for or affiliated with an entity or industry wholly financed by the Chinese Communist Party or in which the Chinese Communist Party has a majority ownership interest," unless the president said the importation is necessary for the nation's economic security, national security or public health.