News Analysis
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is not letting up in his campaign of pressuring Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) officials against investing the savings of members of the U.S. military and civilian workforce in Chinese firms.
In an exclusive release to The Epoch Times late on June 13, Rubio made public a hard-hitting, fact-filled 3:30-minute YouTube video entitled “Are You Retiring in China?” Produced by his staff, it makes the case that such investments only benefit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that controls the increasingly aggressive and hostile regime in Beijing led by Premier Xi Jinping.
“We know these Chinese companies do not play by the rules. There is absolutely no reason the retirement savings of service-members and federal employees should be funding companies working with the Chinese government and military,” Rubio told The Epoch Times….