Arizona GOP senate candidate Blake Masters often cites his own business record as a model for his hardline anti-China policies but it turns out that he has participated in multiple funding rounds for a Chinese biomedical startup and more.
announcing the Series C round in 2019 said that Immunochina was at the time of the investment still “targeting China’s domestic market,” and had not yet branched out to other countries.
Beijing as “the number one geopolitical threat,” and has declared multiple times that the United States is in “a Cold War with China.” But Masters steps outside the mainstream with claims like “we should literally ban Chinese nationals from studying in our universities, from working in our companies,” which he stated at an event in Chandler, Arizona, this April.
that the United States was “giving [China] the keys” by “inviting tons of Chinese nationals to come here and study in our universities, work in our companies.”
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