WTH Live! Are Chinese Companies in the U.S. Trojan Horses for the CCP? Reps. John Moolenaar and Raja Krishnamoorthi Explain

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Chinese companies control 80% of the shipping cranes in U.S. ports. And the People’s Republic of China is now the largest foreign investor in U.S. shale gas. And Chinese companies operating in the U.S. are regularly caught stealing American intellectual property, personal data, and even genomic data. Why should we care? Because Chinese companies are legally beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, and have given the CCP the opportunity to cripple critical American infrastructure in the event of any confrontation between the U.S. and China. In this episode of WTH Live! the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party outline the threat certain Chinese companies operating in the U.S. pose to national security, and how to combat it.

Congressman John R. Moolenaar represents Michigan's Second Congressional District and serves as the Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Moolenaar also serves as Michigan’s senior member of the House Committee on Appropriations and as the Co-Chair for the School Choice Caucus. Prior to joining the House, Rep. Moolenaar served in the Michigan State Senate and Michigan House of Representatives.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi represents Illinois’s Eighth Congressional District and serves as the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, making him the first South Asian American in history to lead a Congressional Committee. He also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.0	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on?
0:01.1	Who in God's name
0:21.7	knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. And I'm Mark Tieson. Welcome to our podcast. What
0:34.1	the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on? What the hell have you been doing?
0:39.3	Well, so we did a podcast recently where we featured an event that you held where you excluded me
0:45.6	and interviewed two brilliant congressmen, Richie Torres and Mike Lawler, about the problem of
0:51.5	anti-Semitism. And so today I'm getting you back because I had a
0:54.8	great event at AEI with two congressmen of Republican and Democrat, Congressman John
1:00.2	Mulanar and Congressman Rajah Krishnamuthi, who are the chairman and ranking member of the
1:06.4	House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party. And it was a
1:12.8	great event where I learned so much. It was great. It was terrific event. And what we talked
1:18.9	about are shipping cranes. Now, why should we be concerned about shipping cranes? Because it turns
1:25.1	out that China controls 80% of the shipping cranes in the ports
1:31.0	across the east and west coast of the United States. And not only that, they've installed
1:37.2	cellular towers in the shipping cranes, which allows them to control those shipping cranes
1:42.7	from Beijing and Shanghai and China.
1:47.2	So we've got literally China has the ability with the flip of a switch to shut down our ports in a crisis over, say, Taiwan or some other situation.
1:58.7	If this isn't like the epitome of everything that we've done
2:03.2	wrong with our China trade policy over the last quarter century, I don't know what is.
2:07.2	So I have a deeply intellectual intervention here, which is that when Olivia and Sophie and
2:16.0	Nikki were small, they watched a really great cartoon
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