It’s one thing to think about the Belt and Road Initiative, it’s another thing if you are handing somebody the belt to tie around your neck

“It’s one thing to think about the Belt and Road Initiative, it’s another thing if you are handing somebody the belt to tie around your neck.” —@wolfejosh of @Lux_Capital on U.S. capital contributing to development of technologies for the Chinese military.

“The former head of the @NSAGov called CCP IP theft ‘the largest transfer of wealth in human history.’ But who is being robbed and harmed? It’s our service members. It’s ordinary Americans… You are being robbed every day, in plain sight, by the Chinese Communist Party.” - Chairman @RepGallagher

“[The Chinese Communist Party] pioneered an expansive approach to stealing innovation, on a scale so massive, that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history.” - @FBI Director Christopher Wray

“More than 150 scientists who worked on [US] taxpayer funded projects… are now conducting sensitive research in China… hypersonic missiles, deep earth penetrating warheads.” “We are perpetrating the ability for adversaries to utilize weapons against us.” - @BillEvanina , former Director of @NCSCgov .
“This is the inflection point. If we stay ahead we can make sure technology serves humanity, and not the other way around. The reverse is also true: if we lose, we could see this technology impact our freedoms and limit our opportunities. Those are the stakes.” - Ranking Member @CongressmanRaja

“This isn’t just a competition to see whether the CCP or the US gains an economic or military advantage. This is a competition between two distinct systems to determine the values that will be embedded in the foundational technologies of day-to-day life.” -Ranking Member @CongressmanRaja

“It is great to want people in the theaters. It is great to want people in the arena, sitting down. But as an influential American, you also have to be standing up for what makes us great, and that is our moral righteousness over the rest of the world: doing the right thing.” - @wolfejosh
“The CCP is working to attract American scientists through its Thousand Talents program, hacking America’s most innovative companies, and stealing our discoveries and know-how while punishing dissidents within and beyond its own borders.” - @wolfejosh of @Lux_Capital“China’s @BGI_Genomics group was using prenatal tests in collaboration with their military to collect genetic data on pregnant women. China captured the information of over 8 million women.” - @DrNealDunnFL2 on the threat of China's growing BioTech presence“Imagine in a year or two or five, there’s a cure for Alzheimer’s… but what if we found out that was tested on a million Uyghurs…” -@wolfejosh of @Lux_Capital “Indifference to injustice is the gate to hell.”
“This isn’t China-writ large. This isn’t Chinese people. This certainly isn’t Chinese-Americans. It is the Chinese Communist Party…[waging] a form of warfare in financial, technological and social terms that we all have to be very weary of.” -
@wolfejosh, Co-Founder of @Lux_Capital
“The CCP is working to attract American scientists through its Thousand Talents program, hacking America’s most innovative companies, and stealing our discoveries and know-how while punishing dissidents within and beyond its own borders.” -
@wolfejosh of@Lux_Capital
@RepMoolenaar explained that a CCP-backed battery firm [ @Gotion48660 ] has planned to build a factory in his district.
“Is it basically a guarantee that some of the people who come from China to work on this project will spy for the CCP?” - @RepMoolenaar
“100%” - @BillEvanina
“We know that America leads the way in innovation. But this is changing. [China is] stealing an amazing amount from us and from others around the world.” —
@RobWittman warns of the CCP’s explosive investment into R&D fueled by stolen US tech.
“Do you think it’s fair to say that there’s no such thing as a truly private company in China?”- @repgallagher
“Chairman, that’s correct. In my experience in the intelligence community in the last decade, I have not seen an example of a private company that is not owned, operated, or influenced by the Communist Party of China.”- @BillEvanina , former director of @NCSCgov

We must do everything we can to protect America’s position as a global technological leader. We cannot allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue to steal trade secrets and commit industrial espionage.