Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:
I’m much less worried about Taiwan than I am about Denver, Colorado, or Los Angeles, or Phoenix, or Ottawa, or Toronto.
The Chinese Communist Party is hard at work inside the gates here — right where we’re sitting today.
I’ll bet you there are Chinese Communist Party affiliated people in this room today.
And by the way, they look like me — like white Italian dudes. They’re working for this mission set, and they’re not spies in the quintessential sense.
They’re in our university systems in the United States. There is not a single university in the United States that isn’t deeply tied to Chinese money. Chinese students in our country pay full tuition, and then they come give money to our labs so they can steal our stuff.