TAP America, the Made In the USA Foundation and the American Job Alliance today announced the ‘Buy American Coalition’ to stimulate the U.S. economy, protect the American values of tolerance and patriotism, and weaken authoritarian regimes that violate human rights, like the People’s Republic of China.
The formation of the ‘Buy American Coalition’ comes on the heels of the latest troubling news out of China. Korean customs officials have seized thousands of Chinese-made pills made from the flesh of fetuses, the product of forced abortions under the Communist Party’s one-child policy. This tragedy is an extreme example of the millions of dangerously unhealthy and unethically produced goods that flow out of China into the U.S. and every other country.
TAP America Founder Mark Bloome said, “The ‘Buy American Coalition’ is of great importance to our country now more than ever. We are seeing our jobs being hollowed out in America by unfair competition from China. Working with both the American Jobs Alliance and Made In the USA Foundation, we believe that this issue is large enough to require examination by multiple organizations. We at TAPamerica.org are leading the charge.”
The Buy American Coalition calls on citizens to buy American and boycott China. This grassroots action sends a clear message that Americans believe that their people and nation prosper by adhering to traditional values of liberty and human dignity, not by abandoning them to appease foreign autocracies such as the Chinese Community Party.
China’s authoritarian regime is critically dependent on American cash and investment to fund its machinery of repression. “When consumers buy American-made products they put Americans to work and starve the Chinese Communist Party of resources. This is a double victory — for American workers and American values,” said Greg Autry, Senior Economist with the American Jobs Alliance. “It is not possible or even necessary to completely shun Chinese-made products to have a positive impact. Even the threat of a substantial boycott would change the behavior of corporations that benefit from China’s exploited labor and mercantilist trade behavior,” Autry notes. “A 20% drop in imports from China would easily destabilize Beijing. Buying American will make U.S. firms appreciate that.”
The Laogai Research Foundation fully supports the coalition’s efforts, especially as we invite guests at our Laogai Museum to consider the origins of the products they buy every day. For a large proportion of products sold in the U.S., buying Made in China means buying Made in Laogai. Our founder and director Harry Wu commented on the formation of the Buy American Coalition:
“For decades the U.S. government has said that doing business with China would bring democracy and human rights to the Chinese people, but it is now clearer than ever that buying up their cheap prison-made goods has only strengthened the Chinese Communist Party. This imbalanced relationship is hurting the American people too, as they see their health threatened by unsafe Chinese products, their jobs lost, and their economy undermined. If governments do not insist that the repressive Chinese regime abide by fair trade practices, then it is up to American corporations and consumers to hold China accountable for its prison slave labor, lack of compassion for other workers, and countless human rights violations.”
The ‘Buy American Coalition” is comprised of:
- Mark Bloome, Founder of TAP America
- Richard Tso, Executive Director of TAP America
- Greg Autry, Senior Economist for the American Jobs Alliance
- Curtis Ellis, Communications Director of American Jobs Alliance
- Joel Joseph, Founder of Made In the USA Foundation
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