A former U.S. general is sounding the alarm on the ties that bind China’s communist regime to the levers of American power.
Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is seeking to undermine and ultimately displace the United States.
To accomplish that, he said, the regime needed to remain coupled to the United States so that it could buy or steal the American technologies required to gain a military advantage over the United States. As such, he said, the United States would need to wholly decouple strategic industrial sectors from the Chinese economy….