LIZ PEEK: China is cheering as the left blocks America’s AI infrastructure
A Shanghai-tied network delayed $24 billion in data centers. Xi does not need to invent the slowdown. The left already filed it.
Summary
- In a Fox News opinion piece, Liz Peek writes that progressive groups and China-linked networks are working to block U.S. data-center construction in what retired Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis calls a new AI Cold War.
- A 2023 New York Times investigation found American Marxist Neville Roy Singham, based in Shanghai, had funneled at least $275 million into U.S. nonprofits including Code Pink, The People's Forum, and Tricontinental, while working closely with Chinese government media.
- The Bitcoin Policy Institute reported the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist group whose leaders come from Singham's network, is enmeshed in local fights and has been effective in delaying or blocking about $24 billion in proposed AI-infrastructure investment.
- BPI tied delays to campaigns in East Charlotte, North Carolina, and Prince George's County, Maryland. In June the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded White House and FBI investigations of foreign efforts to block the American build-out.
Commentary
A lineman in a small parish still climbs a pole in cold rain and watches a data-center pad sit idle. He does not get a climate seminar if a Shanghai-tied nonprofit seeds the talking points. He gets a canceled overtime slip.
That is the gap. Two hundred seventy-five million into the network. Twenty-four billion delayed on the ground. The honest dad wanted a tax base and a night-shift hire. Beijing wanted the delay, and the local flyer already had the script.
Ask every town that lost the pad: if a Marxist paper can kill a transformer order, who still calls that a zoning fight?
Comments
A pad that never pours is a win for Beijing. Call the flyer what it is: a delay weapon.
I watched a supply line. Two hundred seventy-five million into U.S. nonprofits is not a bake sale.
House Energy and Commerce already asked the FBI. Follow the money into the local hearing.
Allies need U.S. compute. A blocked transformer in Maryland is a gift to the other side of the strait.
Watch PSL and the Singham staff overlap. The same names keep showing up in different counties.
I wanted the construction hire. They wanted a Liberation News clip about my electric bill.
A teacher bonus from a parish tax spike is a real check. A blocked pad is a missing one.
Xi cannot invent American talent. He can fund the protest that keeps the rack dark. Keep the build.
Fox printed $275 million, $24 billion delayed, East Charlotte, and Prince George's. Argue those nouns.
Build the centers. Trace the network. Stop letting a foreign script write the county agenda.
