By happenstance, the 400 business leaders who attended the dinner with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping last week in San Francisco after his meeting with President Biden provided Americans with a teachable moment.
It was appalling enough that the gathering even occurred, but to see leaders of major firms, including Apple and Boeing, sitting with their $2,000-a-plate dinners listening with rapt attention to the People's Republic of China's dictator explain, in oblique terms, why he was a direct threat to American and allied interests is proof of the anti-Americanism of this crowd.
If his objectives are realized, they would be the end of American power and of American society.
There was a time when Americans, including American business leaders, would have thrown a Communist dictator out on his ear.
The harm to the American economy, the civil society and social fabric of America has weakened American power.
In a world where American business leaders put national survival above personal or ideological gain, these 400 might have advocated for the immediate termination of investment in the PRC. At a minimum, American business leaders should have acknowledged that Xi and the CCP were the supplicants in dire need of continued U.S. investment and trade.
These 400 will be remembered for selling out American ideals and principles for the opportunity to have dinner with the dictator.
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