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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Blackburn: China Part of the ‘New Axis of Evil,’ Along with North Korea, Iran and Russia

Monday, April 13, 2020

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats Economic Security

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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) argues it is time for the United States to make policy decisions to bolster domestic manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and shift away from Mainland China.

During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Justice” on Saturday, Blackburn laid out her plan, a bipartisan effort with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), incentivize those moves.

“It is the Securing America’s Medicine Cabinet Bill,” she said. ‘And this is something that I had focused on for a while. I was concerned about what was happening with antibiotics, and with some prescriptions that were so necessary for surgeries in our country, and we would have shortages. And you start looking at what is happening, and you find out these active pharmaceutical ingredients that are required for making these medications and prescriptions are single-sourced, in guess where? China.”

“And because of that, it is important to secure our supply chain and to bring that manufacturing back to U.S. shores, and I have this legislation, and as you said, Senator Menendez is the lead Democrat co-sponsor on this,” Blackburn continued. “And what it would do is incentivize bringing this manufacturing back and letting these pharmaceutical companies team up with our colleges and universities and put the focus on advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing.”

Later in the segment, Blackburn reminded viewers of China’s ability to manipulate global bodies, and that they’re an adversary, which she deemed to be part of the “new axis of evil.”

“Well, one of the things I think should happen with the U.N. Human Rights Council, and the W.H.O., my goodness, here we have China being protected by the W.H.O., and then they’re wanting to have this seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council,” Blackburn said. “Maybe it’s time to review the funding that we send to them. Maybe it is time to send that message. Is that what China did — listen, China is not our friend. They are our enemy. They have been ripping us off, taking our jobs. They have been sending us this virus this year. They’ve been stealing our intellectual property, and we need to realize they are not our friend.”

“They are part of the new Axis of Evil,” she added. “You’ve got North Korea and China and Iran and Russia. And Judge, these are not people who wish us well. And when you see what China has it done, not only to us but to the entire globe with this pandemic, China’s actions made this pandemic worse because they hid the information. They were not transparent. It is time for us to hold them to account, whether it is through returning our manufacturing, removing these Confucius Institutes, making certain that we have China — we look at their debt. The debt of ours that they hold, a trillion dollars’ worth. Maybe they should waive that debt. There are so many things that we should do.”

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/12/blackburn-china-part-of-the-new-axis-of-evil-along-with-north-korea-iran-and-russia/

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