Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Thursday Nov 08, 2012
Crisis in China
Thursday Nov 08, 2012
Thursday Nov 08, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Americans have lately been focused on a leadership contest in this country. But another, potentially equally consequential one has been going on half-a-world away. While ours involves the democratic election of a president to govern for four years, the one in Communist China has been engineered in secret and is supposed to last for an entire decade.
Everything may not go according to plan in Beijing. Sluggish economic performance is intensifying opposition to a Communist Party elite rocked by scandal. And outgoing President, Hu Jintao warned yesterday that rampant corruption could “prove fatal to the party” and lead to the fall of the state.
The likely beneficiary of such a crisis in Chinese ruling circles will be the king-making military. That won’t be good for the people of China – or the United States.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday Sep 18, 2012
America's Two Wars
Tuesday Sep 18, 2012
Tuesday Sep 18, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
American diplomats, embassies and assets are being attacked throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. More such violence is likely, given the perpetrators’ perception of our weakness and submission, creating conditions where we are likely to have to respond forcefully to defend our interests.
Meanwhile, the government of Communist China is allowing anti-Japanese sentiment to be whipped up to the point where a popular frenzy for war with Japan may get out of control.
Suddenly, the Obama administration’s contention that the United States no longer needs to plan or budget to fight two wars at the same time can be seen for what it is: shortsighted, reckless and an invitation to just such a danger. Gutting our defense capabilities in the name of saving money is a false economy – one we cannot afford to make.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
China's Underground Great Wall
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
Wednesday Sep 05, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
During meetings in Beijing this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a taste of the unhappy prospects for U.S.-Chinese relations as her hosts increasingly perceive their nation to be a rising power, and ours a declining one.
Here’s a reason why: In recent weeks, Communist China has launched four new types of long-range ballistic missiles. Some will be outfitted with multiple nuclear warheads and deployed in a complex of three-thousand miles of hardened tunnels known as the Underground Great Wall.
By contrast, the United States has no new nuclear missile programs and its deterrent is obsolescing. Worse, if President Obama has his way, this country will unilaterally eliminate its land-based missile force. Think China is behaving aggressively now? Just wait until we increase its relative strength further, by weakening our own.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Thursday Aug 02, 2012
Good-bye to Loral
Thursday Aug 02, 2012
Thursday Aug 02, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
The Obama administration thinks it would be a good idea to export space technology to Communist China. It recently approved a sale of satellite-related equipment by Loral. Unless Congress promptly objects, the deal will go through.
Loral, of course, was one of the U.S. companies caught illegally shipping missile-related gear and know-how to China under President Clinton, ostensibly to help its space program. But since the Chinese space program is a military activity, the assistance actually enabled what Mao Tse-tung would have called a “Great Leap Forward” for Beijing’s long-range rocket threat to the United States.
It is recklessly irresponsible to assist that threat further – to say nothing of allowing the same company that did such harm to our nation once before to profit from doing it again. Just say “No,” Congress!
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Thursday May 31, 2012
Chinese Military Tech
Thursday May 31, 2012
Thursday May 31, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
It seems some of the U.S. military’s arms and computer systems use electronic chips manufactured in Communist China that have been secretly outfitted with “back doors.”
Such back doors mean that prospective enemies could commandeer our weapons or computer networks at a moment of their choosing – and to our grave detriment.
It’s clearly intolerable that the Chinese manufacture nearly all the world’s chips – including ones on which we critically depend. Ditto their controlling the supply of nearly all the planet’s rare earth minerals, equally essential to our weapon systems and security.
In the future, a China inclined to act aggressively may calculate – rightly or wrongly – that it can exploit its back doors and our dependencies to deter or neutralize any American response. To prevent war, we must fix such vulnerabilities.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Chinese Faulty Banks
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Tuesday May 15, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Revelations that JP Morgan Chase lost $2 billion have got a lot of people, from President Obama on down, wondering whether there is adequate regulation of the U.S. banking sector.
The furor over JP Morgan’s losses has obscured another development in that sector, however – one that should raise far more serious questions about who’s minding the store in this important industry and the adequacy of regulatory mechanisms.
At the urging of the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve Board has just approved access to our market for three Chinese government-owned banks. Unfortunately, as Forbes.com columnist Gordon Chang has pointed out, these banks would – by any reasonable definition – be considered insolvent, and wholly inadequately supervised by the communist government that owns them.
That’s no way to increase necessary public confidence in our country’s banking sector.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.