I always find it interesting when people choose to so carefully stress and spell out the words "Chinese Communist Party".

It's a bit like spelling out "Barack Hussein Obama". It's a dogwhistle.

Yes yes, it's still called the Chinese Communist Party, I know.

But since we are talking about a one-party authoritarian state with a hybrid economy that underwrites much of western prosperity (including by producing a large percentage of the components of the data centres Anthropic is dependent on), that has long-since abandoned many of the salient principles that mark it out as conceptually communist rather than totalitarian, and since we're talking about a man who runs a debt-ridden business in a country where the president is seemingly shaking down a 10% share of everything profitable for the state while running an entirely arbitrary tariff regime and suddenly calling anyone remotely left-winga Communist, it's a deliberate and telling choice to spell out "Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" when he could just as easily and arguably more usefully and appropriately have written "Chinese government" or "Chinese state".

This is some ham-fisted Republican-fishing. He must really be worried Sam is Donald's favourite.

The only real surprise is he didn't illustrate it with a Silmarillion analogy.