Commentary In the new Epoch TV series “Over the Target,” hosts Lee Smith and Brandon Fallon talk about the financial ties that exist between the American ruling class elites and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). We often hear talk about the United States challenging or competing with China, while at the same time, exports from the United States to China increased by 40 percent. Host Lee Smith explains how the relationship between the CCP and American political and business elites advances the powers of these two different ruling classes: one an autocracy and the other a want-to-be autocracy stemming from Washington, the east coast, and Silicon valley in America. Smith says that when policymakers talk about competing with or challenging Beijing, they don’t understand that the American ruling class is never going to challenge China because doing so would represent a threat to their own interests. “They depend on Beijing …