

Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “ make them aware of what’s happening so they can equip themselves as appropriate.” “This committee was set up to build out the bipartisan consensus on the CCP and the actions we need to take to defend ourselves,” the source said. The breadth of subjects covered on the tour highlight the range of challenges the Chinese government poses to US leadership, the source said, adding that lawmakers will seek to deliver the message to business that excessive dependence on China - whether for supplies, or as a base of potential customers - exposes the US to risk. The meetings will also include a session on China’s role in the digital currency space and talks with members of the cryptocurrency community based in California, the source added. Apple’s revenue from China grew by 70% between 20, according to its financial reports. China is Apple’s third-largest geographic business segment after the Americas and Europe, accounting for more than $74 billion in company revenues last year. On Friday, lawmakers will have conversations with former Defense Secretary James Mattis as well as Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The group is expected to lunch with Big Tech executives representing Google, Microsoft, Palantir and Scale AI. Microsoft President Brad Smith will speak to members about China’s control of rare earth minerals, a key input in many modern computing technologies, while experts from Stanford University are set to discuss innovation in the defense field.

On Thursday, lawmakers will engage with officials from Big Tech and venture capital, the source said. Lawmakers will also dine with entertainment producers and screenwriters who have been critical of the industry’s approach to wooing Chinese viewers, the source said. The 10-member bipartisan congressional delegation led by Chairman Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican, will kick things off Wednesday in a meeting with Disney CEO Bob Iger, where lawmakers are expected to raise concerns about Disney’s compliance with China’s censorship regime. Matt Winkelmeyer/Justin Sullivan/Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images “The facts are the facts.”Įditor’s note: comment from the Menendez campaign was added.L to R: Microsoft President Brad Smith, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney CEO Bob Iger. “Bob Hugin is funding his campaign with blood money he pocketed from ripping off cancer patients,” said Michael Soliman, Menendez’s campaign chairman. Schuster’s comments caught the attention of the Menendez campaign. “But I’ll always know him as the guy who made a killing – off cancer patients like me.” “Now he wants to be your Senator,” Holt says. In the ad, cancer patient Pam Holt says the Revlimid keeps her alive and that Celgene charges over $600 for a drug that costs them less than $1 to make.
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The super PC, Patients for Affordable Drugs Action, is spending an estimated $1.5 million on a TV ad slamming Hugin. “These disgusting attacks are fitting of a desperate politician like Bob Menendez and clear evidence that he’s scared.” “His campaign chairman called Bob Hugin a ‘bloodsucker’ and even went so far as to infer that he killed people during his time at Celgene,” Schuster said. Schuster accused the Menendez campaign of lying about Hugin’s record at Celgene. “Bob Hugin spent the last two decades working to improve the quality and extend the lives of people diagnosed with terminal disease,” said his campaign manager, Stacy Schuster. The ad, titled “Ryan” features the father of a young cancer patient, Kirby Davidson, talking about how Hugin and his company, Celgene, stepped in to help his son. Senate candidate Bob Hugin has a new ad that rebuts claims made by a super PAC that Hugin has profited by overcharging for a cancer-fighting drug manufactured by the pharmaceutical company he ran.
