We need a 3rd option. If we allow partially-stolen, subsidized, cheap Chinese AI to grab the American user base, we will be repeating the mistakes made 25 years ago with our manufacturing base that will take 10 more years to fix. Chinese theft, subsidies and dumping are a state playbook for economic warfare we should no longer accommodate.

I am pleading with Democrats: give us a leader on @ChinaSelect who gives a shit that American state government officials are being directly attacked by Chinese Communist Party agents. Yesterday, I testified about a Nebraska state senator who was visited by a Chinese corporation that threatened Nebraska's entire state economy over a CCP foreign agent registration law. I personally received a death threat from a CCP state actor right after one of the Nebraska hearings. I also testified about a cyberattack that shut down a Texas committee hearing that focused on CCP threats. One thing I didn't mention is how Chinese nationals surrounded a Texas state senator and told her "we know where you live" in response to her proposal to keep CCP companies out of Texas. It's not just Texas and Nebraska. It's happening all over the country. @RepRoKhanna ignored all of that. He didn't care that CCP agents are directly threatening both Democrats and Republicans at the state level. Instead, Ro launched into a rant defending CCP birth tourism scams and saying anyone who opposes these scams (probably 90%+ of American people) is a racist. And the context in which Ro brought this up? He was strangely almost defending CCP terrorists who tried to bomb MacDill AFB on March 10th of this year because those CCP terrorists became American citizens by birthright. Democrats: I know you're way better than this because so many of you are messaging me to thank me for dismantling Ro in committee yesterday. But we desperately need leaders on @ChinaSelect who will protect the country, or at least protect fellow American elected officials. And Ro Khanna ain't it.

Today I testified to @ChinaSelect on how the CCP attacks Chinese-Americans, higher ed, critical infrastructure & military bases. When states enact protections, CCP agents threaten state lawmakers. We must crack down on CCP subnational influence operations.

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