Anduril’s Luckey Wants China Cut Out of US Defense Supply Chain

The supply chain for US defense manufacturing is too reliant on China, Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey said on Friday, shortly after new tariff threats by US President Donald Trump sent the markets skittering.

“We have to get off the Chinese supply chain,” Luckey said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “We need to reindustrialize. We need to have our own rare earth supply and make our own chips and computers. China has a lot of leverage.” Anduril has made strides decoupling from the country, Luckey added. “Anduril is not what I’m concerned about.”

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