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Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a hearing on countering China’s influence in the United States. Watch Rubio’s opening remarks here as well as Part I and Part II of...
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Foreign investment is one of the legal means that adversaries, like China, can use to collect Americans’ data, exasperating both privacy and national security risks. To counter this, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reintroduced the...
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Special Report with Bret Baier to discuss the impending government shutdown, the possibility of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, and the indictment of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). See below for highlights and watch the full...
British-based bank HSBC reportedly allowed Beijing to set up a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee within its China-based investment banking subsidiary. Under Chinese law, these committees are required to implement the Party’s principles and policies within the company, with zero limiting factors.
There is growing concern additional companies may follow HSBC’s lead, if they have not already. According to the Financial Times, a person familiar with HSBC’s decision said, “You don’t second guess the authorities in China. … Any American bank who isn’t doing the same is playing a dangerous game.”
Writing in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Rubio warned, “The risk of Communist infiltration is widespread because the number of publicly traded companies operating in China—from tech giants and advanced manufacturers to shoemakers and drug companies—is staggering. Financial companies … are among the most vulnerable.”
Looking forward … Rubio will push for SEC disclosure of these communist committees for any company operating on U.S. stock exchanges. He introduced legislation in February with Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) to do exactly that.
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