Bill Drexel, an associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security, recently emphasized the importance of seeing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as an imminent threat for the near future.
Drexel said that while we develop artificial intelligence in the U.S., we can no longer turn a blind eye to the CCP during a recent interview with the Federal Newswire.
“I think we're in the middle of a society-wide discussion on where artificial intelligence and these emerging technologies will go, what their risks are and how we should approach governing and building them out," Drexel told Federal Newswire. "If I have one message for everyone in that conversation it’s to recognize that we have underestimated the Chinese Communist Party in tech and geopolitics for too long and to our peril.”
He added the same is true with artificial intelligence, Federal Newswire reported.
“We’re trying to envision a world in which these technologies are safe, dependable and really promote human flourishing, yes, we absolutely need to get that right in our own societies," Drexel added, according to Federal Newswire. "But we also need to recognize that what may be the largest threat to that future is the Chinese Communist Party, and figuring out how to get that right should really be at the top of the agenda.”
Drexel continued saying many tech industry and geopolitical leaders are agreeing that artificial intelligence will be "pretty fundamental to competition" in the upcoming years, Federal Newswire reported. He said comments have been made by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and others about the new technology.
Drexel said the strategy of the U.S. to engage with China to lead them toward a more free society has been “turned on its head,” according to Federal Newswire He said, on the contrary, the CCP has “pulled the internet and these technologies further into autocratic repressive applications,” in particular in the Xinjiang region.
Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, the chairman of the House Committee on the CCP, made a similar criticism of the U.S. regarding the relationship with China, calling it “zombie engagement,” according to a June 14 Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
“We are in the window of maximum danger when it comes to a potential conflict with China,” he said in a June 22 news release from his office, concerning the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. “If we are to deter Xi Jinping and prevent the devastating consequences of war, Congress must come together in a bipartisan fashion to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s aggression and ensure that the U.S. military has what it needs to deter, and if necessary, fight and win in the 21st century.”
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called out U.S. corporations and business owners for ignoring the crimes committed in China which they defend in America, according to a June 1 Twitter post.
He said Nike, which stands for “racial justice,” does nothing about the minorities the CCP locks up, and BlackRock, defenders of “climate action,” refuse to comment about Chinese fossil fuel emissions, according to his Twitter post.
“The crusader for ‘free speech’ kisses the ring of the world’s biggest censor: Xi Jinping,” Ramaswamy said about Elon Musk in his Twitter post.
Drexel continued saying “the way we are taught history really underemphasizes how big a problem the CCP has been continually,” according to Federal Newswire. He gave the example of the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989 which is not often talked about.
He added Mao Zedong, who is reportedly responsible for the largest famine in the history of China, should be included with the likes of Hitler and Stalin, Federal Newswire reported. Instead, Drexel said there are “long lines of people with flowers, sometimes crying, waiting to leave flowers at the mausoleum of Mao Zedong.”
Gallagher concluded his WSJ opinion piece with a quote from Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
“The very ideology of communism, all Lenin’s teachings are that, if you can take it, do so. If you can attack, strike. But if there’s a wall, then retreat," Gallagher quoted in his WSJ opinion piece. "The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them.”
Gallagher said the U.S. must end its current relationship with China which has been shown to fail and defend against the imminent threat of the CCP with a firmer strategy, according to his WSJ opinion piece.
