The Secure Our Ports Act would bar businesses from operating U.S. docks if they are owned by Chinese, Russian, Iranian or North Korean companies.
A California congresswoman on Friday introduced a bill that would ban businesses owned by companies of U.S. adversaries from operating American ports. The Secure Our Ports Act , filed by Rep. Michelle Steel , R-Calif.
, would bar port owners from letting businesses operate U.S. docks if they are owned by Chinese, Russian, Iranian or North Korean companies by any share. Rep. Steel’s district is in the greater Los Angeles area, which is home to two of the largest ports in the country. The congresswoman said the act would prevent American adversaries from accessing shipping infrastructure there and harming U.S. supply chains. Nations which threaten the United States should not have easy access to our port infrastructure, a key lifeline of America’s supply chains,” she said in a Companies like the China Ocean Shipping Company have routes to the ports in the greater Los Angeles area. Barring them from controlling the docks would help protect the U.S. economy, according to the congresswoman. “My Secure Our Ports Act would shore up America’s economic and national security in the face of threats from Communist China and their like-minded allies,” Rep. Steel said. “Congress must protect America’s supply chains by restricting adversarial governments from having high-level access to our ports.”The bill came during “China Week,” a stretch that saw the House of Representatives pass 25 bills that the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party claimed would protect against economic, technological, ideological and military threats. Some Democrats said the bills passed without bipartisan negotiation, with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., arguing that much of the legislation left out critical details, according to “This is not lost on the CCP,” he reportedly said. “They pay extremely close attention and they feel that we are hopelessly divided and hopelessly partisan and therefore, we can’t measure up in the competition.”
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