China has already suspended material essential to America’s tech and defense industries after President Donald Trump announced his first round of tariffs, but if it opts to suspend pharmaceuticals and medical supplies as well, the country will need to buy such items from third parties, China expert Gordon Chang said Sunday on Newsmax. 

“I think what will happen will be we will get all of those items,” Chang told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “It’s just that it’s going to take a little bit longer because we’ll buy them from third parties and, of course, we’re going to pay a little bit more.”

He pointed out that in 2010, when China imposed an embargo on rare earth exports to Japan over a South China Sea issue, the embargo collapsed in a few months because the Japanese bought what they needed elsewhere. 

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