“Any citizen concerned about the threat from China and their spy balloons should be outraged at this incident.”
WASHINGTON – In an original column for The Center Square, Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown blasted now-former FTC Chair Lina Khan for working with Temu, a Chinese Communist Party-backed e-commerce platform, to undermine American companies.
“Khan was so obsessed with her crusade against Amazon, born and based in Seattle, that she was willing to collude with a foreign company with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Under China’s National Intelligence Law, Temu must provide data – collected both domestically and abroad – to the CCP,” begins Brown, a former U.S. Senator and Ambassador. “So what in the world would compel Khan, who took an oath promising to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic, to work with a company connected to a government who has declared the global spread of Communism, ‘the party’s supreme ideal and ultimate objective’?”
Brown continues by highlighting Khan’s true motivations: “Khan’s real target was the ‘consumer welfare standard,’ which as its name suggests, prioritizes American consumers as a north star for antitrust policy. In a nutshell, the consumer welfare standard keeps government regulators off the backs and out of the business of private companies so long as the interests of consumers are being served.”
Brown concludes with a call for more public scrutiny and investigation of this incident: “Any citizen concerned about the threat from China and their spy balloons should be outraged at this incident. Any member of Congress, whose bipartisan bill forcing TikTok divestiture from its suspected ties to the CCP, was one of the few areas of common ground in recent years, should take note and investigate.”
Read the full piece here.
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