Chinese Communist Party
also referred to as: ccp · the ccp
13 statements across 12 episodes · 1 bullish · 9 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Graham Allison · said 53 times in 28 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Marc Andreessen (23), Congressman Mike Gallagher (4), Chris Power (4), Todd Young (2), Steven Sinofsky (2), Jacob Helberg (2), Brian Schimpf (2), Balaji Srinivasan (2)
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2026 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2025 17 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
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- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
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- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
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- The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- AI, Robotics & the New Global Arms Race
- Why America Must Lead in AI Investment
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- Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Chinese Communist Party, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Allison: Xi maintains power by building competent government cadres
“He's trying to purify, as he puts it, to rectify the party, to make it virtuous. Again, how can you do this? We build some cadre, Who will be so competent in performing the functions of government that citizens will say, well, they're doing a good job, and, yo…”
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Gallagher: CCP control of TSMC would allow global economic blackmail
“There's no way we can just let the CCP come to control TSMC's production capacity or take it offline or destroy it. It would hand them the ability to economically blackmail the entire world, dictating who gets to participate in the modern economy and who doesn…”
Jun 10, 2023 negative
Andreessen: China's AI strategy combines internal surveillance with global export
“With respect to AI, they basically have two, basically, they essentially have a two-stage plan. So stage one is to develop AI as a means of population control within China. So to basically use AI as a technology and tool for a level of Orwellian authoritarian,…”
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Oct 21, 2023 positive
Andreessen: China's living standards improve as market freedom increases
“Most recently in China, you know, there's a direct correlation between the degree to which the Chinese Communist Party kind of takes its boot off the throat of the people in terms of their ability to engage in markets. And engage in trade and the extent to whi…”
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Gallagher: CCP-influenced ByteDance control over US news platform borders on suicide
“To allow a company, ah, that is owned by ByteDance, which is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, to be the dominant news platform for the next generation of Americans, I think borders on, on national suicide.”
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Gallagher: CCP is the worst actor on ESG and social justice
“If social justice or ESG is a big deal for you and your employees, I just would ask you to recognize that there's no worse ESG actor, and no greater offender of social justice issues than the Chinese Communist Party. They suck on the E, the S, and they really …”
Feb 28, 2025 negative
Webster: DeepSeek returns CCP propaganda or refusals on Tiananmen Square
“If you ask it about Tiananmen Square or whatever, it will either give you a refusal or it will give you like this long diatribe of The CCP party line, like, you know, nothing happened. We believe in harmony in China and blah, blah, blah.”
May 1, 2025
Sep 29, 2025
Oct 6, 2025 negative
Sinofsky: CCP members in Chinese offices can access company data centers freely
“When you do business in China, you don't have trade secret. And you're just in the office, and there's the CCP members that work in your office that you're forced to employ that report back to what's going on, and you have no say in that. Like, at the level of…”
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Aug 31, 2026 negative
CCP Launders Anti-Data Center Campaigns Through TikTok, Asserts Gavin Baker
“Like there is an organized CCP funded campaign. I think against data centers here in America. Like I think a lot of it gets laundered through TikTok and it's just tragic because the other thing that's happening is this is re-industrializing America.”