WASHINGTON - Citing the vital need for a secure US industrial base, US Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced bipartisan legislation to guard against attempts by the People's Republic of China and others to undermine US national security by exploiting and penetrating US supply chains. The Manufacturing, Investment, and Controls Review for Computer Hardware, Intellectual Property and Supply (Microchips) Act (S.2316) would develop a national strategy to assess and prevent risks to critical US technologies. "Actions by the People's Republic of China have contributed to an unfair and unsafe advantage in its technological race against the United States," said Sen. Crapo. "Through government investments and subsidies, as well as intellectual property theft of companies like Idaho's Micron, China aims to dominate a $1.5 trillion electronics industry, which creates serious, far-reaching threats to the supply chains that support the US government and military. The Microchips Act would create a coordinated whole-of-government approach to identify and prevent these efforts and others aimed at undermining or interrupting the timely and secure provision of dual-use technologies vital to our national security."
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