(Natural News) If America loses a future war to China or even a major battle, we will have some of the largest U.S. technology companies to blame for it, according to a just-released report.
The Washington-based advocacy group Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VoC) and Horizon Advisory consultant group note in their report that eight major U.S. firms are providing “direct support” to the ChiCom government’s military and state security apparatuses.
“In their endeavor to capture Chinese markets and boost their bottom lines, American corporations have increasingly supported Beijing’s military modernization, surveillance state, domestic securitization, and attendant human rights violations,” the report said.
The groups looked at eight American companies that operate in China — Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, GE, Google, Intel and Microsoft — in a search for business links “that may directly or indirectly support China’s state surveillance, military modernization, and human rights violations.”
And though all of the firms analyzed by the report had a questionable history of doing business with Chinese state-owned corporations, the groups documented in their report that GE, Intel and Microsoft, in particular, gave “direct support” to either the Chinese military or the ChiCom state security apparatus, The Epoch Times reported.
The outlet noted:
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, add 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.
“Apple 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 Beijing’s military-civil fusion strategy, which channels technological innovations developed or acquired in the private sector toward the Chinese military,” the report said.
“Military-civil fusion strategy” refers to the mobilization of Chinese society in order to take part in the “great rejuvenation” of the country via the modernization of the ChiCom’s military branch, the People’s Liberation Army. Under the strategy, all tech development by civilian companies occurs with an eye towards being able to apply it for a dual-use military purpose. As such, that is a problem for any U.S. or Western firm that wants to locate to China and do business there, including tech development.
Source: Naturalnews.com
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