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.
BREAKING: List of elite American executives dining with genocidal communist “Guest of Honor” Xi Jinping last night for $40,000 in San Francisco.
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) November 16, 2023
- Tim Cook @Apple
- Stephen Schwarzman @blackstone
- Larry Fink @BlackRock
- Stanley Deal @Boeing
- Merit Janow @Mastercard
-… pic.twitter.com/QnRItp7Kpo
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:
My view of the standing ovation for Chinese President Xi Jinping tonight in San Francisco from a ballroom full of some of the most powerful American CEOs and Chinese officials. I’ll have more Thursday morning on @SquawkCNBC on @CNBC. pic.twitter.com/WP6MVeBLfZ
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) November 16, 2023
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."