> Thiel and company repeatedly claim that there is no meaningful difference between the Chinese military and individual Chinese nationals who work for American

> Thiel and company repeatedly claim that there is no meaningful difference between the Chinese military and individual Chinese nationals who work for American companies, because China is essentially a fusion state where the government dictates the flow of capital. I didn't get this but I read it a day or two ago so it's not fresh. Can you point where you saw this conclusion? My reading was that the claim is that Chinese companies are not differentiable from the CCP and this feels pretty fair? A great example of this can be seen in this report: https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinese-communist-party-targets-private-sector https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinese-communist-party-target... What's more is it's not clear per se that Thiel and co. are explicitly against some role of the Government in influencing the private sector's business relations in foreign lands. In fact, no one really seems to be opposed to that given that we have all sorts of laws around bribes, child labor, etc that expand beyond US borders. The problem in their view is that US companies are explicitly aiding Chinese companies which are in turn in aid of the CCP. The argument is that the US should hold accountable US companies which aid through what is essentially a direct way the CCP. Their problem is not inherently that the CCP directs Chinese enterprises nor more generally that a Nation directs its enterprises in some way.