Writing to “express concern about the security and integrity of Intel’s operations and its potential impact on US national security,” menacing hick Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton on Tuesday inquired in a letter to the hardware company’s board of directors on the matter of whether Malaysian-born CEO Lip-Bu Tan is just Chinese or if he’s Chinese, like that kind of Chinese, Reuters reports.
“Intel is required to be a responsible steward of American taxpayer dollars and to comply with applicable security regulations. Mr Tan’s associations raise questions about Intel’s ability to fulfill these obligations,” Cotton wrote, trying to get a feel for how Chinese the naturalized US citizen is.
Racially-coded red-baiting aside, it’s not like Cotton is giving the ethnically Chinese Tan the glassy, internally dead, sociopathic side-eye simply because of his background as there are legitimate questions about Tan’s previous employer, Cadence Design, who pleaded guilty last month to violating US export controls banning the sale of certain specialized tech products to China. Cotton is specifically interested in whether Tan was aware of subpoenas issued to the Cadence prior to his departure in May 2023 as well as whether he owns any stakes in companies with ties to Xi’s Regime.