One thing that the pandemic has made starkly evident is that it is urgent for the United States to become better able to serve its own needs in the areas of pharmaceuticals, pandemic readiness, and energy, according to Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.). Continuing to rely on China, a geopolitical rival with close ties to many of the United States’ enemies, is not an option, the congresswoman the “Capitol Report” program on NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times, on March 17. “It uncovered the need to be self-reliant with regard to things like personal protective equipment (PPE). China is an adversarial nation, and we’re relying on them for 90 percent of our medications or active pharmaceutical ingredients and our finished products,” Harshbarger said. “We need to make those things in America or use our allies” for such purposes, she argued. In Harshbarger’s view, the current reliance on China fails to …