The United States administration has carried on with its criticism of China, slamming companies like Microsoft, Disney, Google and Apple for transacting business with China while criticising Hollywood for censoring its movies to please the government of China.
While speaking at a speech in Michigan, US Attorney General, Bill Barr said Tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Disney were “all too willing to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Barr also accused Communist Party of China of committing “economic blitzkrieg” and added that the Chinese regime was hell bent on surpassing the U.S.
Barr said: “China’s Communist Party seeks to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them.
“They seek to raid the United States. I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign dictatorships of our day”
Barr revealed that US companies succumb to demands of China in a bid to maintain access to the profitable Chinese market, and remarked that the US has become excessively reliant on face masks, medical gowns and other protective equipment manufactured in China.
He said: “The People´s Republic of China is now engaged in an economic blitzkrieg – an aggressive, orchestrated, whole-of-government (indeed, whole-of-society) campaign to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and to surpass the United States as the world´s preeminent superpower.
“The CCP has launched an orchestrated campaign, across all of its many tentacles in Chinese government and society, to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them.
“The ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States.
“Globalization does not always point in the direction of greater freedom. A world marching to the beat of Communist China´s drums will not be a hospitable one for institutions that depend on free markets, free trade, or the free exchange of ideas.”
