You know, of course, that when you take on the moneyed interests, you're taking on big giants who don't want anybody to get in the way of what they are doing—again, sort of the Ray Dalio view of the world.
I'm just trying to think of the number of years that we at the commission have been talking about and raising concerns about Chinese companies on the U.S. stock exchanges, on things like the accounting standards. We can't get access to the work product, to papers, to the account of audits in Chinese companies, to the risks that take place. There are all sorts of mechanisms that are happening for the flow of money.
I think the CFIUS reform we did under FIRRMA was an effort to try to address some of these concerns about the acquisition by Chinese companies of American assets, including even real estate. If they're buying land for a “warehouse” near a sensitive military installation, somebody needs to be making sure that we're paying attention to that.
The concerns about the stock market have been there. I think Congress is really aware of that and is paying a whole lot more attention to it and to the concerns about what Chinese companies, through a number of mechanisms, are buying in the United States. I'm even going to put money laundering on the table. There was a story that just came out about a delicatessen owned by a coach in New Jersey that made $100 million. There was a very complicated shell corporation system that tied in to Macau. There's a money-laundering aspect to all of this too.