US attorney-general Barr says Disney and Apple are ‘pawns of China’
16 July 2020 - 22:45
New York — Major US companies including Walt Disney and Apple have become pawns of China, enabling the government in Beijing to amass influence and wealth at the expense of the US and Western democratic values, attorney-general William Barr said on Thursday.
“American companies must understand the stakes,” Barr said during a speech in Michigan. “The Chinese Communist Party thinks in terms of decades and centuries, while we tend to focus on the next quarter’s earnings report.”..
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