United States: Joe Biden insists on the need to restore his country's supply chains

Containers pile up in the Port of Los Angeles on October 13, 2021 (illustrative image).

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Employees of American ports, as well as those of the largest transport and distribution companies, will work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Joe Biden announced this on Wednesday, October 13.

The goal is to unblock ports and restore supply chains damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

Guillaume Naudin

The image is impressive.

The Port of Los Angeles is overflowing with cargo while offshore dozens of giant container ships wait to be unloaded.

For the American president, beyond the need to work continuously as most of the United States' competitors do to deliver products, it is proof that supply chains must be rethought.

Joe Biden: “ 

We should never have to depend on one company, one country or one person in the world again.

Especially when these countries do not share our environmental or labor requirements ”.

China is still targeted

Once again, China is the target.

But the concern is not only American.

Passing through Washington for the general meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the French Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, shares these concerns and he has a solution: “ 

Independence.

Independence is the one that the President of the Republic wanted to build with the 2030 investment plan, so that we are more independent in energy, more independent in nuclear matters, more independent in semiconductors, so that we are less dependent ”.

Joe Biden doesn't say anything else.

He takes the opportunity to insist on the adoption of his giant investment plan, still blocked by disagreements between elected officials of his own party.

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