There's a little bit of an implication in the piece that Thiel's anti-China stance is bad. The implication is set up simply by juxtaposition with other more obj

There's a little bit of an implication in the piece that Thiel's anti-China stance is bad. The implication is set up simply by juxtaposition with other more objectionable things. But, in isolation, it's reasonable. Like this: > Thiel began to espouse increasingly strong anti-China views, including the belief that U.S. tech companies were harboring Chinese spies. In 2019 he claimed that Google, a longtime target of Thiel’s attacks, was being “infiltrated” by Chinese intelligence and called the company “treasonous.” He later attacked Apple for relying on China for its supply chain. Like, Google probably does have CCP intelligence inside. And Apple's reliance on China is a problem. And, even though Google did originally have some Defense ties (especially via Eric Schmidt. Also connections to the Obama White House, and maybe to CIA (for Google Earth)), it absolutely has refused to work on Defense (project Maven; attempts to move Boston Dynamics out of Defense). Is he actually wrong here? I would hope that America's Democrats are not going to be to China as Germany's Socialists and Greens are to Russia. And I don't think they are in general; remember the Pacific Pivot was Obama's. Thiel can be right about this one thing.