Texas Scorecard by Robert Montoya | March 14, 2023
Beijing in Speaker Dade Phelan’s backyard, and yours. Your taxpayer dollars have been used to fund America’s enemies and put Chinese Communist Party spies in your local sheriff’s department.
If security experts are to be trusted, multiple sheriff’s departments across Texas have compromised themselves by purchasing and using drones from Da Jiang Innovations. Based in the Shenzen province of China, this company has deep connections to the Chinese Communist Party, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). They have managed to corner the global and North American drone markets by offering high-quality drones that are well below the prices of their competitors.
They are not doing this as a part of some business strategy to gain market share quickly; rather, it is a part of the CCP’s global surveillance program.
Heightening tensions between the CCP and the West, including the January to February 2023 spy balloon incident, illustrate the very real dangers Beijing’s dictators pose to America.
This threat has come to the Lone Star State. Both the Texas Railroad Commission and Texas Department of Public Safety have revealed they purchased these devices. Meanwhile, the Texas Military Department, the agency charged with the defense of Texans, appealed to Attorney General Ken Paxton to hide what drones they’ve bought.
The CCP’s infiltration efforts have also managed to penetrate to close to home for many Texans by way of their local Sheriffs.
There are those like Jeffrey DeCoux, Chairman of the Autonomy Institute, who told Texas Scorecard that DJI drones can be used while offline, denying access to the CCP. DeCoux also said that if you ban buying DJI drones, then state and local public servants will be stuck with, what he calls, substandard California drones.
That still leaves the question of whether or not Texas taxpayer money should be used to fund those who hate us—in this case, the CCP and those to whom they’re connected. J. Kyle Bass, CEO of Hayman Capital Management, and co-founder of Committee on the Present Danger: China, warns about how unjust Communist China is. “They’re a threat to US national security. They don’t respect human rights. They never will,” Bass said in an August, 2022 interview with Texas Scorecard. “They’re out for global primacy. They will lie, cheat and steal their way there. They’re not a responsible global actor.”
Bass also doesn’t buy the cheap goods argument for why business with the Communist dictatorship should continue. “There’s only one reason we do business with them, and it’s because we think we have to,” he said. “We can get cheap tennis shoes, and cheap T-shirts and, and manufacture products from other places in Southeast Asia and Mexico and Canada,”
As for the espionage, there’s still an argument against inviting into your home that which is intended to spy on you.
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