The U.S. Corporations Building China’s Military-Surveillance State

Some U.S. corporations doing business in China have struck a Faustian bargain to enrich themselves while helping the Chinese Communist Party enslave its population at home and threaten the U.S. and our allies around the world. Big Tech firms have transferred sensitive technology to the Chinese military, helped spread CCP propaganda, and developed the innovations that created the Chinese people’s electronic prison.

Until recently, there had been little way of collating or quantifying these egregious acts of support for the world’s most powerful totalitarian state. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation — which does invaluable work educating the public about the horrors of Marxist regimes, past and present — has compiled the aid and comfort American businesses rendered to the enemy in its first-ever “Corporate Complicity Scorecard.” This report weights eight corporations — Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, GE, Google, Intel, and Microsoft — and finds them wanting. Of those eight firms, half of them get an F, and another two get a D based on their cooperation with the Chinese government’s oppressive aims.

Some of the corporations in the report appear to be complicit, or at least willfully blind to, the persecution of  Uyghur Muslim population in China’s Xinjiang district, where government officials herd more than a million Uyghurs into an open-air gulag. In addition to claims of forced labor, there have been credible allegations that China engages in systematic rape and torture. Both Dell and GE both maintain offices in Xinjiang, despite “clear business advisories from the US State Department counseling that businesses not operate in or have supply chains dependent upon Xinjiang,” the report says.

Many Uyghurs end up in forced labor, which creates many of the components that go into Big Tech products. Western non-governmental organizations have identified 11 separate companies in Apple’s supply chain as potentially linked to slave labor programs. These companies may also benefit from child labor, the report states – READ MORE