What do Tesla and Coca-Cola have in common? The CCP has stolen critical intellectual property from both. I asked David Shedd to explain how. He’s the former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and co-author of “The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets.” In 2018, Elon Musk got a first-of-its-kind deal: Tesla could operate in China without a joint venture partner, something no other American automaker had. There was much fanfare about it all. But what Musk and others at Tesla didn’t know was that an engineer inside the company was preparing to secretly hand Tesla’s golden goose, its autopilot technology, to the CCP. That technology is “now currently found in…the BYD, EX Motors, and others.” “That's a billion-dollar heist.” Or again with Coca-Cola: “Why would China be interested in Coca-Cola?” “The Chinese weren't interested in the secret formula. They were interested in getting the chemistry behind the inside of the cans of Coca-Cola.” “Why?” “Because those cans have a formulation to prevent oxidation, while those cans sit on the grocery shelf or in your home, for the Coca-Cola acidity not to eat through the can.” “It's the lining now that is inside their ballistic missile fuel containers in order to protect against that oxidation.” Americans need to understand, says Shedd, that “every aspect of the Chinese economy supports the state…it is intended to both aggregate power to the state, but also to maintain the power of the state.”