{"id":1188743,"date":"2022-01-04T22:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188743"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:19:46","slug":"former-trump-intel-official-cliff-sims-calls-out-big-tech-wall-street-for-aiding-communist-chinas-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-intel-official-cliff-sims-calls-out-big-tech-wall-street-for-aiding-communist-chinas-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump Intel Official Cliff Sims Calls Out Big Tech, Wall Street for Aiding Communist China&#039;s Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-trump-intel-official-cliff-sims-calls-out-big-tech-wall-street-for-aiding-communist-chinas-rise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chinese-Communist-Party-children-flag-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former senior Trump intelligence official Cliff Sims in a recent interview called out Big Tech companies and Wall Street for aiding Communist China\u2019s rise at the expense of America.<\/p>\n<p>Sims, in an exclusive interview with SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Saturday,<\/em> criticized companies like Apple for tying their future profits to China, where foreign businesses must abide by the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s rules \u2014 which are aimed at China\u2019s domination of the world economy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cChina is far and away our number one national security threat, issue, challenge that we have to tackle. They aspire to dominate the world, technologically, militarily, economically, culturally, across the board, he told host and Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.<\/p>\n<p>Sims, who served as U.S. deputy director of national intelligence for strategy and communications, said as the Trump administration confronted the threat of China, one of the recurring challenges was that American companies were funding the rise of China\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>For example, he cited Apple CEO Tim Cook, who secretly struck a more than $275 billion deal with China wherein he promised that Apple would \u201cdo its part to develop China\u2019s economy and technological prowess through investments, business deals, and worker training,\u201d according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/facing-hostile-chinese-authorities-apple-ceo-signed-275-billion-deal-with-them\">expos\u00e9<\/a>&nbsp;by The Information. Sims continued:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tim Cook was the one who was credited internally at Apple as the one who really opened Apple up into China. He bet on China big before he was even CEO, he\u2019s doubled down on it since being CEO.&nbsp;And so he\u2019s got a lot of reputational and financial stuff wrapped up in this as well. So this is a guy who has made quotes in the past about human rights, it\u2019s about treating people with dignity and respect\u2026but you haven\u2019t heard a peep, not a single peep out of Tim Cook and Apple about the CCP\u2019s mass surveillance state inside of China, about the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t say a word about these things. And the reason is Tim Cook has made Apple\u2019s business a hostage to China. They are so dependent on China for their manufacturing capacity, their supply chain, all of these different things. At this point, if he said a word about that and China snapped their finger and shut that down, Apple would be in serious, serious trouble.&nbsp;They would not be able to get you an iPhone or any of these things anymore because they\u2019re so dependent on China.<\/p>\n<p>This is a case study. And what is happening with, with other businesses, China is an authoritarian state. Anyone who says otherwise is misguided or completely full of crap. There is no such thing as a private company in China, all of them by law are required to assist the surveillance state, the national security state there, and to serve the CCPs ends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sims said it is not just Apple that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, but other businesses and Wall Street leaders as well.<\/p>\n<p>Sims said Trump introduced the idea of reciprocity in the trade relationship with China, and he criticized the Biden administration for destroying leverage built by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Biden administration came in well, right off the bat they go up and meet with them in Alaska and [our] diplomats get embarrassed. They get confronted very aggressively by the Chinese. And it really kind of put a marker down that China was going to reassert\u2026its historical primacy in the U.S. China relationship. And so it is unfortunate to see some of that having eroded here, and it really comes down to an&nbsp;unwillingness to acknowledge that the U.S. China conflict is, at its core, an ideological struggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Biden administration wants to focus on \u201ceconomic competition\u201d with China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo, no, no, no. This is an ideological struggle, struggle as you put it, Matt, for what the future of the world is going to look like. And the Cold War was an ideological struggle too, but the difference was U.S. and global economies were not quite as intertwined with the Soviet Union as they are with China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sims said it will be important to elect leaders who understand the China threat \u2014 potentially Trump again in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no one that I would rather have sitting in the Oval Office negotiating with Xi Jinping, negotiating with the CCP, positioning America for success, economically, technologically, militarily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has recently come under criticism from Republicans and human rights groups for opening a showroom in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNationless corporations are helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide and slave labor in the region,\u201d Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Right after President Biden signed Sen. Rubio\u2019s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tesla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tesla<\/a> opened a store in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Xinjiang?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Xinjiang<\/a>. Nationless corporations are helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide and slave labor in the region. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yWBTQSLbM\">https:\/\/t.co\/2yWBTQSLbM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rubio Press (@SenRubioPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRubioPress\/status\/1478090139406684165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Breitbart News\u2019s Kristina Wong on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kristina_wong\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristinawongreporting\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former senior Trump intelligence official Cliff Sims in a recent interview called out Big Tech companies and Wall Street for aiding Communist China\u2019s rise at the expense of America. 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