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Here's How Bay Area Execs Reacted After Forking Over $40K for Dinner With Genocidal Tyrant Xi Jinping

As part of CCP dictator Xi Jinping's visit to the United States to meet with President Joe Biden and participate in the APEC Summit, he also was a "guest of honor" at a dinner — accompanied by a delegation of Chinese Communist Party officials — and attended by a dozen "representatives of corporate sponsors" of the event.

According to photos of the dinner program released by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, these representatives who paid $40,000 for their sponsorship included:

  • Amway CEO Milind Pant
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook
  • BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
  • Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
  • Boeing CEO Stanley Deal
  • Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
  • Fulgent Genetics CEO Ming Hsieh
  • Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel O'Day
  • Honeywell Executive Chairman Darius Adamczyk
  • KKR Co-CEO Joseph Bae
  • Las Vegas Sands CEO Robert Goldstein 
  • Mastercard Chair Merit Janow

In addition, "host organization representatives" at the dinner included Council on Foreign Relations President Michael Froman and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark. 

Their attendance is one thing, but the show of support and apparent appreciation for President tyrant Xi by the crowd that included these American business leaders was inexplicable: 

China is known to engage in CCP-sanctioned and -run corporate espionage to steal American technology from, among others, the companies whose executives attended Xi's swanky Bay Area dinner. Xi is also, of course, engaged in a genocide of the Uyghurs, and such tyrants don't normally receive standing ovations from free people not required to show their support under fear of retribution. Yet there they were, American business leaders, clapping like seals for the genocidal leader of a tyrannical communist government. 

Even Joe Biden, in a moment that seemed to send present cabinet members spiraling, called Xi a "dictator."