“Of course, Apple and Nike publicly claim to decry slave labor,” said Tapper. “But to be clear, the behavior we are seeing from U.S. corporations is not about a company surviving. It’s about discontent with just hundreds of millions of dollars, desiring instead billions of dollars.”

Tapper concluded by listing off several instances where Hollywood caved to China by making painstaking efforts to avoid offending the nation. He explained that it all comes back to the fact that “the millionaires and billionaires of Hollywood and the NBA and the IOC and Wall Street are all so eager for Chinese cash, they’re pretending none of this is happening.”

“There is no amount of money that can buy enough soap to wash that blood off their hands,” Tapper ended.