Commentary The Chinese Communist Party made strategic investments in key industries and companies over the last 20 years. Until recently, few in the West seemed to notice or care. Among those who were paying attention, many actually praised Beijing’s focus on tomorrow’s technologies. However, it was dangerously naïve to ignore the CCP’s desire to overtake America as the world’s most powerful economic, military, and cultural power. Not only would dominance in next-generation information technology help place Beijing at the leading edge of global industrial competition, but it would also provide the Chinese Communist Party a mechanism to expand its international influence. Thankfully, Beijing’s strategy ran into bipartisan opposition in the United States. Four years ago, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and I began briefing major American companies, universities, and others on how the Chinese Communist Party used firms like Huawei, ZTE, Alibaba, and Tencent to infiltrate and ultimately undermine our institutions. At the time, …