Thiel criticizes Google for working with China in a Uiygur genocide (but admits he doesn’t have proof). He criticizes Facebook for its stance on Hong Kong democracy because there are more Chinese born employees at FB than Hong Kong born (is that “evidence”?).
First thing — these are foreign policy issues from the perspective of the USA. We (the USA people and our government) have done far worse in the foreign policy sphere.
Also worth mentioning that Theil’s Palantir moved out of the Bay Area partly because he and the other execs didn’t like that Bay Area tech employees are activist about politics and things like foreign policy in their job as stakeholders at those companies — a role he seems to advocate in this article (he just doesn’t like the direction of their advocacy).
Also worth mentioning that he made these comments at an event dedicated to one of the presidents that most damaged the USA in both domestic policy and foreign policy (Richard Nixon) and Thiel publicly supported another more recent president who managed to destroy USA institutions even more than Nixon.
Worth taking these words with a giant grain of salt and observing that this man has a giant log in his eye.
Please don’t take anything in this post as supporting China or any of the FANG companies mentioned. I’m only pointing out that Theil doesn’t seem to have a consistent stance on government policy or what constitutes “hurting America”.