Dinner with a Dictator: When American Business Leaders Support the Enemy

They should be required to visit a PRC concentration camp

Never in our history have Americans so openly and brazenly celebrated a dictator.  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.

There are four major reflections from that event. First, it was obscene—as evidenced by the video of them giving Xi a standing ovation. 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 (PRC) 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.  Xi explained this vision of tyranny, on American soil. If his objectives are realized, they would be the end of American power and of American society. The depth of this depraved anti-Americanism needs to be acknowledged and accountability demanded from the 400.

There was a time when Americans, including American business leaders, would have thrown a Communist dictator out on his ear. During his 1959 visit to America, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could not get a meeting with Walt Disney when he toured Disneyland because Disney would not meet America’s enemy. Not so for these 400, who place their own personal well-being above that of the United States.

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