From its inception five-and-a-half-years ago, the Committee on the Present Danger: China has sought to expose the great and growing threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party and its unrestricted warfare aimed at destroying the United States. Many of the nearly 200 webinars the CPDC has produced to date have documented this reality indisputably.
Unfortunately, over the intervening years, that threat has metastasized further, with the CCP obtaining the option of adding to its array of asymmetric and unconventional techniques for undermining and defeating us the capability to do so the old-fashioned way: with a shooting war.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy is now the largest in the world. Its air force, strategic rocket forces, nuclear arsenal, space warfare capabilities, cyberwarfare and other power-projection capabilities – including Belt and Road infrastructure available worldwide for the purpose – have been massively enhanced.
As the Committee’s publications, videos and other materials have relentlessly pointed out, to add insult to the potential for grave injury, these developments have actually been made possible substantially thanks to the transfer of, by some estimates, $5-6 trillion dollars from American capital markets to thousands of Chinese companies. Incredibly, among them are corporations building weapon systems with which the PLA plans to kill us and various instruments for repressing the people of China.
Fortunately, thanks substantially to the seminal work of our colleagues — notably, Roger Robinson, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, the Coalition for a Prosperous America – as well as the Committee’s own efforts – there is a growing awareness about this outrageous, subversive and potentially suicidal arrangement. In particular, there is mounting resistance at the state-level to such underwriting of the enemy from attorneys general, treasurers and legislators.
A significant breakthrough occurred on November 21st, however, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued the following executive order: “I direct Texas investing entities that you are prohibited from making any new investments of state funds in China. To the extent you have any current investments in China, you are required to divest at the first available opportunity.”
The next webinar of the Committee on the Present Danger: China will examine the state of the CCP’s financial warfare against the United States, the continuing enabling of it by what the Chinese Communists call their "captured elites” on Wall Street, the significance of the Abbott initiative and other steps that can be taken to deprive our enemy of the hard currency cash-flow it requires to wage war against us. Join us from 1-2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10th .
Register at www.PresentDangerChina.org.
Moderator: Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China
Panelists:
Gordon G. Chang – Topic: "The Chinese Hide-and-Bide Strategy: How Wall Street has Bailed Out – and Enabled — the CCP”
Colonel Grant Newsham – Topic "The Folly of Underwriting our Most Dangerous Enemy Ever”
Captain James Fanell – Topic: "What $5 Trillion has Bought the PLA: The CCP’s Military Capabilities, Substantially Enabled by Americans Investors”
Justin Bernier, CEO, National Security Index, naval intelligence veteran, former professional staff member, House Armed Services Committee, former candidate for Congress, former J.P. Morgan Private Wealth Manager – Topic: ” Screening Out the CCP’s ‘Bad Actors’ from U.S. Emerging Market Funds: Giving Investors an Alternative”
