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Silicon Valley

There are extensive connections between Silicon Valley and China, also Russia.

The Tech leaders are all board members of Xi Jinping's University

Source: https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2026/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-to-join-board-of-elite-chinese-university

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to join the advisory board of an elite Chinese university, which counts Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg among its 65 members, the Financial Times reported.

The board at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, which also includes the heads of JPMorgan and BlackRock, is a rare forum uniting corporate and academic leaders from the US and China.

The participation of Huang — who accompanied the US president in Beijing — reflects his desire to maintain links in China, despite admitting that the chip giant has “evacuated” the Chinese market.

But news of the membership drew fresh scrutiny in Washington over American tech bosses’ affiliation with the university — the alma mater of China’s leader.

Nvidia sells/smuggles chips into China:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/taiwan-said-to-suspect-nvidia-chips-smuggled-to-china-via-japan

https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-china-nvidia-h200-beijing-approval/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/nvidia-chips-jensen-huang-h200-lutnick-chris-coons.html

(new fed chair Kevin Warsh is married into Howard Lutnick's family)

 

Facebook sells data to China:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44379593

 

Tesla opens new battery factory in China during the Tariff trade war:

https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/tesla-factory-battery-china-trump-trade-war-b2696663.html

Tesla's first plant outside the US, was in China

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/elon-musk-tesla-break-ground-china-plant-first-outside-us

 

Apple basically makes the Iphone in China

https://restofworld.org/2025/apple-china-dependence-tariffs-india-shift/

 

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, first job out of grad school was with Baidu

https://www.businessinsider.com/dario-amodei

 

Is it any wonder that China has caught up with western tech? You could park a semi in these backdoors.