WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, earlier this week Senator Rick Scott sent an open letter to American business leaders applauding those who have made the right choice to stop all operations in Russia and urging all companies to take those same steps to redirect supply chains and decouple their businesses from Communist China before its planned invasion of Taiwan. Senator Scott has been calling on American businesses to decouple from Communist China for more than a year.

Read more in The Epoch Times article, Companies Should Decouple From Communist China Before Possible Taiwan Invasion: Sen. Rick Scott, below:

“The open letter comes on the heels of other bold statements Scott has made in recent weeks on China issues, such as his suggestion last month that no one should ever buy another product made in communist China in response to Beijing’s widespread human rights violations. He also said that China and America are in ‘a new Cold War’ instigated by the communist regime.

In his open letter, Scott referenced a statement earlier this month by Taiwan’s defense minister, Chiu Kuo-cheng, about a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan, in which Chui said, ‘If there’s a war, to be frank, everyone will be miserable, even the victors.’

Americans cannot ignore the Taiwanese minister’s concerns, the senator said.

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Given this, it is insufficient for businesses simply to ‘move some operations around.’ The open letter called for nothing less than a total decoupling from China. Such a move would be all the more urgent if, as some fear, Beijing comes to Russia’s aid in Ukraine.

Even without the danger to Taiwan, Scott said there is already ample reason not to interact with the communist regime in Beijing. The letter identified the regime’s repression of the ethnic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region and the forced labor and sterilization visited on Uyghurs as grounds for businesses to dissociate themselves and their products and services. Beijing’s campaign in Xinjiang has been labeled by the U.S. government and other bodies as a genocide.”

Read the full article on The Epoch Times HERE.

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