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The CCP has become more repressive, more aggressive on the global stage. So, I think that our political and corporate elites have a lot of accounting to do for their failure. Of course, they made a lot of money by pushing this position.”
He likened the elite capture strategy to decapitating U.S. leadership, leaving U.S. citizenry suffering. “But in fact, the head has effectively been cut off, it’s been co-opted, it’s been bought, and then so the rest of the body, which is the United States and the average citizen, suffers.”
Big Tech Working With the CCP
He said the heads of some of the big tech companies, like Tesla, Google, Facebook, etc., have been taken in by the dictatorial regime’s “efficiency” and getting market shares in the world’s most populous country.
“Elon Musk has said this, that the Chinese dictatorial regime is so efficient, they’re so quickly responsive to the needs of the Chinese people—which of course, if you have a dictatorship, you don’t have to worry about civil rights, property rights, an independent judiciary,” said Schweizer.
“I mean, if you’re Bill Gates and you’re worth $100 billion, still, being able to access the Chinese market is important for the continued growth of your company.”
Profit Over National Security
In the past, Elon Musk used to criticize the Chinese regime but has changed his position after striking a deal with the CCP, Schweizer said.
“So, the question is, what’s changed? And what’s changed is he became business partners with the Chinese Communist Party. They built him a large factory, Tesla factory in China, which is now churning out a large number of vehicles. He’s already said he’s going to take the design studios out of California and move them to China,” said Schweizer.
Musk doing business in China also poses a security risk because some of the technologies that Tesla uses in its cars are the same technologies software that is being used on his company’s launch satellites.
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