'..the PRC’s goal is to replace you.' - 'Over the years, corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate with the CCP.' - Barr

'If Disney and other American corporations continue to bow to Beijing, they risk undermining both their own future competitiveness and prosperity, as well as the classical liberal order that has allowed them to thrive.'

- Barr



'U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr delivered a blistering critique of the Chinese Government Thursday and singled out U.S. business leaders as complicit in the country's rise.

Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he pointed to tech companies like Apple (AAPL) and Cisco (CSCO), as well as Disney (DIS) as examples of American firms "bowing to Beijing."

Barr then offered this warning to corporations doing business in China.

“The ultimate ambition of China's rulers isn't to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States,” Barr said. “If you're an American business leader, appeasing the PRC may bring short term rewards, but in the end the PRC’s goal is to replace you.”

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Barr's address unleashed a new line of attack, calling for some of America’s largest companies to reevaluate their relationship with China. He accused the country’s ruling communist party of corrupt efforts to raid the United States of its economic power, in part, by partnering with and pressuring U.S. firms.

“The People's Republic of China is now engaged in an economic blitzkrieg an aggressive, orchestrated, whole-of-government and the whole-of -society campaign to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and to surpass the United States, as the world's preeminent technological superpower,” Barr said.

Specifically, he singled out some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, saying they had allowed themselves to become “pawns of Chinese influence.”

“American companies such as Cisco (CSCO) helped the Chinese Communist build the Great Firewall of China, the world's most sophisticated system for internet surveillance, and censorship,” he said. “Over the years, corporations, such as Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (VZ) and Apple (AAPL) have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate with the CCP.”

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Barr’s critique of Apple pointed to the company’s acquiescence to Beijing’s requests during protests in Hong Kong, that included removing news and pro-democracy apps from its App and Music stores, as well a decision to move some of its iCloud data servers to China.'

- 'China’s goal is to replace you': Barr warns leaders of America's biggest businesses, July 16, 2020



'Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday accused U.S. tech and entertainment firms — several of them by name — of collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

What he's saying: “If Disney and other American corporations continue to bow to Beijing, they risk undermining both their own future competitiveness and prosperity, as well as the classical liberal order that has allowed them to thrive."

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"Over the years, corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple have shown themselves all too willing to collaborate with the CCP." '

- Barr accuses U.S. firms like Disney and Apple of "bowing to Beijing", July 17, 2020



Context

'Far too many American multinational corporations have kowtowed to the lure of China’s money and markets by muzzling not only criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, but even affirmative expressions of American values.' - Pence

The Broken Promises of China's WTO Accession: Reprioritizing Human Rights

(A united front against China)(The New Alliance) - 'The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire..'