Why Is Amazon Helping Communist China Profit at Americans’ Expense?

U.S. Big Tech giant Amazon is not only crushing smaller American businesses, it is increasingly helping Chinese companies—and thus the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—financially profit off American consumers.

Indeed, the problem is so bad that, at CPAC 2024, Article III Project’s Mike Davis described Amazon as “China’s shopping mall,” accusing the tech company of doing “China’s bidding” while “crushing small businesses in America.” Amazon has partnered with the CCP government more than once, including its propaganda arm. The genocidal CCP told its people it was entering a war phase with the U.S. in 2019, and one method the CCP has of undermining the U.S. is weaponizing its economic influence.

ECommerceDB, an analyst organization that boasts of benefitting Amazon and Google (among others), reported in January:

• More China-Based Sellers on Amazon: According to Marketplace Pulse data, the majority of new Amazon marketplace sellers, 75%, now originate from China, marking a substantial increase from the 47% reported in January 2020.

• Growing GMV [gross merchandise volume] Share: GMV from Chinese sellers has steadily increased pre-pandemic. In 2020, it surged by 64% year-on-year. China-based sellers now constitute over 20% of Amazon's GMV, reaching 28% by 2023.

• Platform Diversification: In addition to Amazon, Chinese sellers are expanding their presence on platforms like eBay. The GMV share they contribute is similar to Amazon's, indicating a more extensive effort by sellers to diversify their presence across Western platforms.

This is completely unacceptable. All major businesses in China are not only answerable to the government, they are required to allow CCP plants to operate within their companies, giving the CCP greater influence.

According to ECommerceDB, Sebastian Gunningham, then-senior vice president of Amazon marketplace, proudly mentioned in 2015 how his company was facilitating Chinese profit. With cheap labor and abusive working conditions, Chinese manufacturers can exploit their own citizens and make money from Westerners at the same time. “Chinese factories who made stuff for Walmart and the likes for the past 20 years now realize they have a shot at building a brand themselves and selling directly to the world, without the intermediary… and we are that vehicle,” Gunningham previously stated.

Amazon is actively assisting America’s greatest enemy to make money off the back of abused Chinese and Uyghur workers, growing rich on American money. Amazon is the perfect illustration of just how corrupt, greedy, and anti-American Big Tech companies are.