The House Homeland Security Committee on March 5 held a hearing on threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party. The timing was fitting, as China responded to President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on the very same day by declaring it could fight the United States in any war.
As Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) stated before the hearing, “From infiltrating American higher education and operating clandestine police stations on U.S. soil to conducting cyber espionage and undermining our supply chains — Beijing casts an authoritarian shadow upon the United States.”
Concerns about Elon Musk’s ties to China are not just partisan noise. They are authentic, bipartisan, and rooted in national security risks.
Green is correct, and that’s the least of it. The CCP has also abetted illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, attempted to buy up strategic assets like the Panama Canal, and played a key role in concealing — and…
