“In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping formalized a national strategy called military-civil fusion, creating a Central Commission under his personal authority to eliminate barriers between China’s civilian economy and its defense sector. Every Chinese hospital, tech company, and university now has its data, research, and technology available to the People’s Liberation Army on demand.

And while the U.S. government was publicly condemning China’s approach, Oracle was embedded in the Chinese government’s data infrastructure. Oracle entered China in the 1980s, and by the 2000s its database technology ran across Chinese government agencies at every level. The Intercept documented that Oracle employees actively marketed surveillance and analytics tools to Chinese police and military-linked clients, including in Xinjiang during what the U.S. State Department has called a genocide of Uyghur Muslims. Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology documented how a Chinese surveillance broker became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year.” And Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman, went on Fox Business and criticized Google for “going into China and facilitating the Chinese government surveilling their people” while his own company was doing the same thing.

The company that helped build China’s surveillance infrastructure is now the company hosting 150 million Americans’ health records alongside classified Air Force systems. The country that spent years saying military-civil fusion is the most dangerous thing a nation can do is quietly building the same architecture through private contracts, with no congressional vote and no public debate.”