By: Ben Whedon
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The former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Friday urged his former colleagues in Congress to spotlight the extent of Chinese influence in the U.S. economy and pursue an economic decoupling from Beijing amid mounting tensions between the U.S. and China.
Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) recalled former President Donald Trump's aggressive approach to repatriating U.S. jobs that had been outsourced to Asia and asserted that such economic policies ought to form the basis of a renewed push to decouple economically from Beijing.
>>"No one, including me, thought that he was really going to slap tariffs on to the Chinese," Nunes said on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "And he did it. And I actually wish that a lot of the people that want to be president or even the people in the media, I wish they'd focus on what was really Donald Trump's priority, which was bringing jobs back to America.
>>"And let's have a discussion in this country and a campaign on whether or not President Trump's tariffs were proper. Were they enough? Did they work? What can we do more?"
He went on to highlight the "financial companies based out of the United States that have strong financial ties to China."One of those institutions was Silicon Valley Bank, which had nearly $14 billion in foreign deposits prior to its collapse last week.
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