U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, held a hearing on China’s cybersecurity threat and the implications of American tech companies’ dependence on China-based supply chains.
Senator Hawley questioned experts and CEOs in the cybersecurity space—including Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike Senior Vice President; Sam Bresnick, Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; and Isaac Stone Fish, CEO of Strategy Risks—on the threats of China’s role in American security, American jobs, and Taiwan’s independence.
“I hope it is a wake up call for our entire government, our entire country that we face with China a peer competitor of a kind we frankly haven’t seen in any of our lifetimes. I hope it’s also a wake up call for these American corporations that for too long have been willing to sell out American jobs and America’s security interests in order to make a quick buck, and in so doing have threatened all of us,” said Senator Hawley. “If there’s ever an advertisement for bringing our critical supply chains home, if there’s ever an advertisement for bringing back core American manufacturing, if there’s ever an advertisement for safeguarding American jobs in every sector, particularly these critical sectors that have to do with telecom and communications, this is it. This is it.”
He continued, “The time is upon us now to make sure that we safeguard these critical industries and that we put an end to Chinese influence and espionage, which is trying to spread itself into every sector worldwide and right here in the United States.”
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