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Thursday Jul 17, 2014
Ignoring China’s True Character
Thursday Jul 17, 2014
Thursday Jul 17, 2014
The United States has long chosen to ignore the fact that Communist China is a hostile power – not just an economic competitor, let alone a friend.Take, for example, Team Obama’s indifference to the giant Chinese internet provider, Alibaba, raising capital here via a huge initial public offering. That means a vast new platform from which the PRC can penetrate and subvert us from within.Then, on Tuesday, a federal appeals court piled on. It ruled that Chinese investors are entitled to have access to unclassified, but sensitive, U.S. government documents – the sort used to justify the rare decision barring China from buying up strategically sensitive American companies. In both cases, we are playing by different rules than China – a situation the Chinese exploit to their benefit and our detriment. This must stop.
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
China's WU-14
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
Tuesday Jan 14, 2014
Communist China recently tested a new hypersonic missile vehicle. It’s evidently designed to use extremely high speed flight and maneuverability to defeat U.S. defenses, while delivering nuclear or perhaps advanced conventional weapons to targets in this country and elsewhere.The implications of such a development are ominous. Like so much else of China’s military activities, the hypersonic system the Pentagon calls the WU-14 has been shrouded in secrecy, then is suddenly unveiled at an advanced stage of development. The United States has been experimenting with such technology, as well, but its versions reportedly may not be operationally deployable for ten more years. That effort may have to be accelerated.But, one thing’s certain: We must consider Communist China a potentially very dangerous adversary, not a reliable trading partner.
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014
Beijing's Fundamental Transformation
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014
While President Obama hollows out our military to “fundamentally transform” America, there’s another very fundamental transformation taking place in Asia. Communist China is asserting ever-greater sovereignty and control over the resources, airspace and now the waters of the vast South China Sea. Its latest gambit is that foreign fisherman must get Beijing’s permission to operate there.At this rate, it is only a matter of time before China demands that our navy stay out, too. And we’ll have too small and too unready a fleet to deter, let alone contest, such demands, leaving our allies to submit to the Chinese or face war without our help.A true “pivot” is needed – to reverse our unilateral disarmament and reestablish, in Asia and elsewhere, the proven Reagan doctrine of “peace through strength.”
Wednesday Nov 27, 2013
The Next War
Wednesday Nov 27, 2013
Wednesday Nov 27, 2013
Wars often begin when one nation calculates that another is so weak, or so isolated, that aggression can be successfully undertaken without significant cost. Such a calculation may have prompted Communist China to declare last week that its permission will be required for foreign airplanes to transit an area that includes contested, but Japanese-controlled, islands. Japan says its passenger airlines won’t do that. And the United States just flew unannounced two bombers through this new Chinese Air Defense Identification Zone. While commendable, these symbolic gestures are unlikely to change Beijing’s assessment that it can take on Japan and deter a United States that is, under President Obama, rapidly dismantling the military capabilities needed to protect our ally. And that’s how the next, devastating – and, until recently, preventable – war may soon begin.
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
Chinese Military Rising
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
A just-concluded meeting of the top echelon of China’s Communist Party has reportedly dispensed with the so-called “collective leadership” of the past. The party plenum approved an apparently sweeping consolidation of power by China’s new president, Xi Jinping.We’re told that Xi will now enjoy absolute control of the military and the ability to intensify internal security. Past objections from the People’s Liberation Army denied his two predecessors such an arrangement. So why is the military going along now, when its power is greater than ever? Perhaps because, in practice, China’s army actually will call the shots. If so, America and her allies in the Western Pacific may face in the days ahead the unchecked Chinese ambition for supremacy and control. Heaven help us all if that’s the case.
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Hainan Island
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Friday Nov 30, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Police responsible for China’s Hainan Island put the world on notice yesterday: They will intercept, board, search and, in some cases at least, seize what they call “illegal vessels” in the South China Sea claimed by Beijing.
China expert Gordon Chang warns that this pronouncement is a serious threat to our national and economic security -- not least because of that sea’s strategic importance to the transit of world trade and energy supplies.
Dr. Chang believes that this pronouncement is eerily “reminiscent of the remilitarization of the Rhineland by Nazi Germany” in the run-up to World War II. Back then, the West failed to understand – let alone, to respond properly to that provocative act. Thus was the stage set for the worst bloodletting in history. We must not make that mistake again.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.