How the CCP Infiltrated America’s Critical Infrastructure: Michael Lucci

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Michael Lucci is the founder, CEO, and chairman of State Armor. He helps states enact policies and solutions that protect their assets from foreign adversaries like communist China.

“They’re trying to invade our homeland, and they likely have developed the capacity to make life very difficult, to create crises within the United States—whether it’s power, whether it’s wastewater treatment, whether it’s telecommunications,” he says. “They have laws that require those companies to engage in espionage. So why are we letting them sell connected devices of any type into the United States?”

In this episode, we dive deep into how the Chinese regime has managed to infiltrate our critical infrastructure and communications systems at the local, state, and federal levels.

“It’s the largest military buildup since World War Two is what China is doing right now,” says Lucci. “If they’re just in our back doors, listening, reading, following everything we’re doing, following the pattern of life for important officials across the country, that’s a pretty deep problem.”

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0:00.0	They're trying to invade our homeland, and they're trying to develop the capacity,
0:05.0	and they likely have developed the capacity to make life very difficult to create crises within the United States,
0:12.0	whether it's power, whether it's wastewater treatment, whether it's telecommunications.
0:17.0	Michael Lucci is the founder and CEO of State Armor. He helps states enact policies to protect themselves from Communist China.
0:24.6	They have laws that require those companies to engage in espionage.
0:29.6	So why are we letting them sell connected devices of any type into the United States?
0:33.6	In this episode, we dive deep into how the Chinese Communist Party has compromised our critical
0:39.8	infrastructure and communication systems at the local, state, and federal levels.
0:45.6	It's the largest military buildup since World War II is what China is doing right now.
0:49.8	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yan Yek Kelluk. Michael Lucci, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders and I'm Yankee Kellick.
0:58.9	Michael Lucci, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. Wonderful to be on, great to meet you.
1:00.7	You recently issued a comprehensive threat assessment of communist China.
1:07.0	Give me a rundown of what you found.
1:10.0	What we found is that the state governments, state and local governments, face unique threats from communist China.
1:16.6	And that was our target. I mean, I run an organization, state armor.
1:20.6	We're working with state lawmakers, some local lawmakers, on countering communist China.
1:25.6	And so the rundown looks at first the risk of war.
1:29.0	So this is kind of the existential threat.
1:32.1	Not just what happens in the first island chain.
1:35.7	You know, if they go to take Taiwan, maybe it's something with the Philippines.
1:39.5	It's not just what happens there.
1:41.7	It's then what happens here.
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