Some leftists don’t want to take threats seriously. That’s incredibly concerning.
And a Democrat governor completely blew off this U.S. adversary.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore just gave the country another reminder of how out of touch Democratic leaders remain on the China threat.
Appearing on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, the governor declared that America should treat artificial intelligence the same way governors sometimes treat each other—by choosing cooperation over competition when dealing with Beijing.
Moore put it plainly: there are places “where the focus is cooperation and not competition. The United States needs to have the same type of framework when it comes to China” on AI, and “my fear is not China.”
He went further: “I think governors actually have a unique place, where, I hear this debate about, well, we don’t want to slow down because it’s a fear of China. Let’s be clear, my fear is not China. My fear is a technology that no human being can control. And so, we’ve got to understand that there has to be that delicate balance of cooperation and competition.”
“As a Governor, I’m very competitive with my other governors, but I do understand there are places where we are actually more — where the focus is cooperation and not competition.”
“The United States needs to have the same type of framework when it comes to China and other nations, because we have shared interests in ensuring that we can have a technology that can help and benefit us, yet, at the same time, that those guardrails are in place.”
That is the worldview now on display from a rising Democratic star. China is not the problem.
Uncontrolled technology is. Shared interests with the Chinese Communist Party somehow outweigh the need to beat them.
This is the same China that steals American intellectual property by the truckload, forces technology transfers from U.S. companies, and runs a surveillance state that would make Orwell blush.
It is the same regime that builds military bases on artificial islands, threatens Taiwan daily, and floods American streets with fentanyl precursors. Yet Moore insists his fear is not Beijing.
Right-leaning Americans have heard this song before. Globalist politicians love to talk about “guardrails” and “shared interests” while China races ahead with state-directed AI development aimed at military and economic dominance.
Cooperation sounds nice in a television studio. In the real world it often means America slows down while the other side keeps sprinting.
Moore’s comparison to governors competing with one another falls flat. State governments operate under the same Constitution and the same flag.
The Chinese Communist Party does not. Treating a strategic rival as a fellow governor is not sophisticated foreign policy. It is strategic confusion.
