“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
“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.
