EXCERPT:
GUNASEKARA: “Well, right now that’s a really good question. We certainly cared in the Trump Administration, when we instituted the America First policy approach to energy development and environmental protection. Under the Biden Administration we’ve seen time and time again their willingness to sell out the American economy and our natural interests just to comply with their Green New Deal dreams. And so, it’s a very good question because it is the CCP, not the American people that stand to benefit from this latest EV mandate because the electric vehicle batteries, the majority of the critical minerals that go into those batteries are owned by the Chinese Communist Party. And we’re talking about environmental degradation here, but they also ignore basic humanitarian standards and they rely on both forced and child labor to deliver these critical minerals to market. So there is a lot of questions. I think at the top of that list should be the national security implications because energy security is directly tied to national security and this administration goes out of its way not only to sell out the American economy but to shift reliance on important minerals and resources overseas, falling into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.”