Breakthrough Ideas CEO Jeane Ives has expressed her gratitude for the efforts of Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) in introducing the No Official Giveaways Of Taxpayers' Income to Oppressive Nations (NO GOTION) Act.
apologised for that. but are the us and the uk, congressman lahood, aligned on china? well, i think they are. part of our conversations this week with our uk counterparts is to make sure they are firm on that, because i think we have to take a strong stance and obviously the partnership with the uk extends for a long period of time. we work well together both from a national security standpoint, from an intelligence standpoint, from an economic standpoint, our countries have never been stronger than they are today. but you know, this is a challenge when it comes to china. i think what the ccp fears the most is bipartisan support in the congress against them, but also working with our like minded allies. and that starts with the uk. we don t have a stronger ally than the uk. and so again, we were reaffirming that, what our select committee is doing in washington dc with our uk counterparts this week. have you found that as well in your conversations? i have. i think that the uk is forwa
they re developing their nuclear programmes. they re helping with developing facial recognition and ai software to repress the uyghurs. so we don t want to be invested in those types of programmes that harm our interests or our values. so, congressman lahood, what congressman krishnamoorthi has just been saying is essentially that us dollars have been until now also funding the development of chinese military interests. that s correct. you know, one thing the committee has been focused on is how do we counteract china? and china continues to abide by a different set of rules and standards that every other industrialised country in the world does. and in many ways, they can t be trusted by their actions that they have taken, whether it s in al, whether it s in facial recognition, whether it s the repression of uyghurs. and, you know, i think it came to a head when we saw the balloon
news, american companies will be subject to new federal oversight that will scrutinise and potentially prevent some of their investments in china s tech industry. the goal is to ensure that us cash does not support china s military modernisation and potentially threaten the united states. earlier, we spoke to two members of the us house of representatives select committee on the chinese communist party. congressman raja krishnamoorthi, a democrat, and congressman darin lahood, a republican both from the state of illinois. they re visiting the uk for meetings with their counterparts here. and we spoke about their work on the china committee. i think that this is exactly what we need to make sure that not only our dollars, but also potential technical expertise and know how don t get into the wrong hands. what i mean by that is that we have investigated some of these firms, and what we ve found is that they are invested in state owned enterprises or other companies in china that unfort