GAI President Peter Schweizer recently appeared on Jesse Kelly’s program. He was asked to react to news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended an Obama-begun program that has allowed US software companies to employ Chinese nationals (with supervision) to perform work on secure, cloud-based systems used by the Department of Defense. Hegseth has now killed the program.
“It’s over,” begins host Jesse Kelly in introducing Schweizer. “But how did it ever begin?”
Schweizer explained that US-based software companies have long indulged Chinese government demands in order to get into the Chinese market themselves. “They rely on Beijing to give them access to the Chinese market, and they’re willing to look the other way when it comes to certain security issues,” Schweizer said.
Schweizer is unsurprised that China has been doing this. The biggher probem is that “DOD officials authorized this, and had no problem with it” for years.
Schweizer said most likely this occurred because of government incompetence, but does believe there are “individuals who are sympathetic to China… and view China as more of a ‘partner’ and don’t see this as a security threat.”
“We need to view everything China does as a potential security threat,” he warned.