Well, the United States finally started to wake up to this during the COVID pandemic when we began to ask, okay, where can we get the masks and the gowns necessary for medical personnel to treat people with the COVID infections? Lo and behold, We didn't make any [masks and gowns] in America. All of it was made in China. And that's just one simple example. With global supply chains thrown into disarray, we found ourselves with shortage of many essential goods, particularly those that require semiconductors. (10:09–10:14)
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Asserts that during the COVID pandemic, the U.S. did not produce masks and gowns domestically; they were made in China.
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