Today’s AG Barr speech on China is just amazing. Try to imagine anything like this 4 years ago.

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

“The CCP surveils its own people and assigns them social credit scores, employs an army of government censors, tortures dissidents, and persecutes religious and ethnic minorities, including a million Uighurs detained in indoctrination and labor camps.”

“If what happened in China stayed in China, that would all be bad enough. But instead of America changing China, China is leveraging its economic power to change America.”

This pt is huge.

“All too often, for the sake of short-term profits, American companies have succumbed to that influence—even at the expense of freedom and openness in the United States. Sadly, examples of American business bowing to Beijing are legion.”

“Despite years of acquiescence to communist authorities in China, American tech companies may finally be finding their courage through collective action...”

“If we rekindle our love and devotion for our country and each other, I am confident that we—the American people, American government, and American business together—can do it again. Our freedom depends on it.”

The CCP “dominates” “threatens” “pressures” “exploits”; American businesses, academics, and entertainers have “kowtowed” “helped” “acquiesced” “apologized” and “bowed”- Barr says they must see themselves not as global citizens but as American and proudly defend American values.