Meet the Woke U.S. Companies Promoting Communist Chinese Tyranny
American companies should never bind themselves legally to promote the core policies of genocidal, tyrannical governments.
That statement would seem self-evident—until one realizes that numerous American companies have done just that in China.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) practices something called “civil-military fusion,” in which everything in the economic and tech sectors must be an available to the Chinese military. The CCP legally requires foreign companies to agree to further CCP ideology. Why should this matter to you? Because many of the goods you use daily, from your iPhone to your tee shirts to your burgers to your car, are made by companies that have agreed to participate in this outrageous system in exchange for cheap labor and cheap goods.
Business Requires the Watchful Eye of Political Officers
The Company Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was originally adopted in 1993, meaning that foreign companies operating in China have been hosting CCP cells and promoting CCP policies for over 30 years now. The Company Law, in its 2018 iteration, states:
Article 19 The Chinese Communist Party may, according to the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party, establish its branches in companies to carry out activities of the Chinese Communist Party. The company shall provide necessary conditions to facilitate the activities of the Party.
So U.S. companies operating in China are required to “facilitate the activities of” the CCP. And those activities include some of the most egregious and vicious human rights abuses possible, including genocide. Indeed, the CCP is history’s greatest mass murderer, with 500 million victims and counting (including the 400 million victims of abortion/infanticide under the one child policy and other politically- and religiously-based massacres). It continues to practice genocide, religious persecution, censorship, and other human rights abuses in a daily basis.
And it gets worse. The CCP legally requires all foreign companies to host CCP cells. That’s right, every American company operating in China has to host a cell with agents from the mass murdering, intrusive, dictatorial CCP—to ensure compliance with the above law. What could go wrong?
It is particularly ironic that a number of the American companies that have complied with this law to operate in China are very woke and, in the U.S., uphold extreme diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) standards. Disney finds even its movie that brought the first Academy Award to a black actor (“Song of the South”) too “racist” by its current ridiculous standards, and yet it has no issue operating in a country like China where ethnic-based genocide has been ongoing for years—including against Tibetans, Mongolians, and Uyghurs (not to mention that the Communist Chinese are very racist against black people). Nike is infamous for its extreme wokism, including making anti-American Colin Kaepernick and transgender “Dylan” Mulvaney its poster boys. But Nike has no issue with perverted CCP nationalism and anti-LGBTQ policies because it exploits forced labor in China. Starbucks has long glorified LGBTQ “pride,” but is also delighted to operate in China and promote CCP policies. The list could go on, but you get the point.
Corporate America Bows to the Communists
American companies that have operations in China include Microsoft, Nike, Boeing, Apple, Tesla, Ford, Intel, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Starbucks, Campbell’s Soup, Walmart, General Motors, Hilton Hotels, Johnson & Johnson, Berkshire Hathway, Coca-Cola/Sprite, AMC, Google, McDonald’s, and Procter and Gamble. This is most certainly not a comprehensive list, but it illustrates how U.S. companies from many sectors, from food to retail to tech, are embedded in the country that is our greatest enemy. The company CEOs will even go to great lengths to kowtow to China, as when a Johnson & Johnson executive praised the CCP’s horrific Covid-19 response, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed independent Taiwan should belong to the CCP, when Disney thanked the officials overseeing Uyghur genocide in the Mulan movie credits, and when Apple CEO Tim Cook lauded China’s “critical” role in his company’s success.
The CCP told its people back in 2019 that it was entering a war phase with the USA and openly declares its desire to dominate the world. Yet dozens of major American corporations continue to agree to advance CCP policies and host CCP cells! This is completely unacceptable. It is long past time for American companies to stop prioritizing cheap slave labor over everything else. Move manufacturing and business back home to America and stop kowtowing to our number one enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
