Barr Says Disney, Apple and Other Firms Are Now Pawns of China
- U.S. companies ‘must understand the stakes: attorney general
- Barr is latest Trump official to ramp up criticism of China
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Major U.S. companies including Walt Disney Co. and Apple Inc. have become pawns of China, enabling the government in Beijing to amass influence and wealth at the expense of the U.S. and Western democratic values, Attorney General William Barr said.
“American companies must understand the stakes,” Barr said during a speech in Michigan on Thursday. “The Chinese Communist Party thinks in terms of decades and centuries, while we tend to focus on the next quarter’s earnings report.”