Microsoft, Intel, GE Provide âDirect Supportâ to Chinese Military, State Security Bodies: Report
From The Epoch Tumes By February 5, 2022
Natalieâs Commentary: These are now Communist Companies, seditionists, where they have already crossed the threshold, a significant barrier of being more loyal to Communist China and the CCP than to the United States and the US military here in the homeland where these companies are located and continue to take advantage by censoring freedom of speech and taking advantage of United States liberty and sovereignty to commit seditionist crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Advocacy group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VoC), and Horizon Advisory consultant group had examined and identified the activities of eight U.S. companies in China: Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, GE, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, looking for business links âthat directly or indirectly support Chinaâs state surveillance, military modernization, and human rights violations.â
Peter Schweizer, who is the President of Government Accountability Institute and an author, releases his new book titled âRed Handedâ this week.
The astonishing revelations in this book exposes and confirms big tech executives are working for China and President Xi Jinping, a genocidal communist dictator, through clandestine meetings and events that has transferred United States secret powers in cybersecurity and intelligence to China in the final event of destroying America and Americans freedoms and lives. This is criminal to say the least.
In the book, Schweizer points out that Biden and his syndicate family through Hunter Biden have received at the very least $31 million dollars from the genocidal communist dictator Xi JinPing.
Biden is beholden to China and has received received $31 million dollars through deals which were carried out by a couple of individuals, one person is named Che Feng. Hunter Biden, in the Hunter Biden emails refers to him as the super chairman. Thatâs kind of heâs nickname for him. He says in one email, âI donât believe in the lottery anymore but I believe in the super chairman.â
âNow who is Che Fang? Heâs kind of this sketchy Chinese businessman. His business partner, at the time that he was striking deals with Hunter Biden, was the Vice Minister at the Ministry for State Security. He was in charge of, among other things recruiting foreign nationals to spy for China.â
Bill Gates, for example, with Microsoft does major research in China with military labs in artificial intelligence which is a crucial area that China says theyâre are going to surpass the United States so they can achieve technological superiority. Microsoft accepts interns from the Peopleâs Liberation Army. Bill Gates, himself, had invested in Chinese companies doing military technology research with the United States and to cap it all off Bill Gates, is an advisor to the Chinese government. He has been given membership in something called the Chinese Academy of Engineering. ~ Natalie
Eight major U.S. tech companies have business links to the Chinese military and security apparatus, according to a new reportby the Washington-based advocacy group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VoC), and Horizon Advisory consultant group.
âIn their endeavor to capture Chinese markets and boost their bottom lines, American corporations have increasingly supported Beijingâs military modernization, surveillance state, domestic securitization, and attendant human rights violations,â the report said.
It examined the activities of eight U.S. companies in China: Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, GE, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, looking for business links âthat may directly or indirectly support Chinaâs state surveillance, military modernization, and human rights violations.â
While all of the companies examined in the report had a checkered history of business dealings with state-owned corporations, the report found that GE, Intel, and Microsoft provided âdirect supportâ to either the Chinese military or state security organizations.
Communist Military-Civil Fusion, Courtesy of American Tech
It is no secret that American companies are supercharging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Establishment media has hinted at the prevalence of business deals favoring CCP authoritarianism for years. The new report does, however, adds new detail to just how pervasive the trend is.
Indeed, the companies involved are reported to have helped the CCP implement its militarization of Chinese society at the highest levels.
âApple and Intel leadership have met multiple times with top brass at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a leading Chinese state entity charged with implementing Beijingâs military-civil fusion strategy, which channels technological innovations developed or acquired in the private sector toward the Chinese military,â the report said.
Military-civil fusion refers to a strategy wherein the whole of society is mobilized to participate in the âgreat rejuvenationâ of the Chinese nation by modernizing the CCPâs military wing, the Peopleâs Liberation Army (PLA).
Under the strategy, all civilian technologicaldevelopment is encouraged to also serve a military function.
That presents a real problem for any company engaged in technologydevelopment or research in China.
For companies intentionally partnering to develop technologies with military corporations, however, the threat to the United States, as well as to Chinese civil liberties, is something more severe.
Partnerships and engagements with Chinese regime entities that support the PLA and state surveillance efforts, however, are far from rare, as the report detailed.
For example, Intel supplies, invests, and engages in technological cooperation with Chinese processor and chip design company Lanqi Technology, which is heavily invested in by China Electronics Corporation, a state-owned defense company that the U.S. Department of Defense has identified as a military entity. Intel also engaged in a $2 billion joint project with Lanqi to develop high-performance processors.
âIntelâs Global Vice President attended the signing [of the deal], as did the Chairman and [CCP] Party Secretary of China Electronics,â the report said.
Intel also previously carried out researchwith a company under contract to provide artificial intelligence technologies to the PLA.
âIntelâs exposure exceeds that of other companies surveyed in this effort,â the report said.
âIntel invests in Chinese high-tech and military-civil fusion companies, potentially fueling them with both capital and access to technology,â the report added.
âIntel has taken no action to curb or terminate such problematic relationships.â
Likewise, GE was found by the report to have engaged in technological partnerships with key players throughout the PRCâs military-industrial complex.
â[GEâs] partnerships appear to involve technology-sharing, including with core players in Chinaâs military, military-civil fusion, and surveillance system,â the report said.
Among those players were the state-owned defense company Aviation Industry Corporation of China, listed by the United States as a military entity, and the Harbin Electric Group. Notably, Harbin maintains a dedicated military-civil fusion department that focuses on providing turbine technology to the PLA.
According to the report, GE maintains a 51 percent stake in a joint turbine venture with Harbin: The General Electric-Harbin Power-Nanjing Turbine Energy Service.
âThose partnerships have ⌠granted military-tied Chinese players positions of leverage in GEâs supply chains, critical to both Americaâs national security and its manufacturing base,â the report said.
âAnd GEâs operations and partnerships in China systemically expose it to risks associated with forced labor and other human rights atrocities in the country.â
Microsoftâs Innovation Hub, a research center focused on artificial intelligence, meanwhile, counts among its members China Telecom, a state-owned telecommunications giant whose license to operate in the United States was revoked in 2021 over national security concerns.
Microsoft also launched strategic cooperation agreements with other companies that the U.S. government has identified as tied to the Chinese military or as otherwise under consideration for export restrictions, according to the report.
Hypocrisy at Home, Authoritarianism Abroad
To be sure, doing business in China at all is to increasingly run a risk. Multiple Chinese laws and organizations exist to collect proprietary data and put it to work for the CCP, as the CCP considers data itself to be a ânational resource.â
The VoC report is careful to note, however, that one ought not to assume merely doing business in China is wrong. Rather, its authors encourage readers to focus on the ethical doublespeak some companies engage in, championing human rights while also contributing to an authoritarian regimeâs repressive technologies.
âUS corporate players have no problem saying one thing in the United States while doing (and saying) something different in China,â the report said.
âSuch hypocrisy is particularly flagrant when it comes to digital privacy: Companies like Apple, Amazon, Dell, and Intel that stress information security in the U.S. also abide by Chinese regulatory requirements for storing and handling data.â
âThis jeopardizes the information, and therefore security, of users in China who oppose the regime, as well as of global users.â
The Epoch Times has requested comment from GE, Intel, and Microsoft.