Secure Freedom Minute
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Thursday May 03, 2012
The Continuing Chen Saga
Thursday May 03, 2012
Thursday May 03, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Just before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a gaggle of others arrived in Beijing, China this week, a courageous blind dissident named Chen Guangcheng miraculously escaped horrific house arrest and found safe haven in the U.S. embassy there.
Yesterday, Mr. Chen left that protection after receiving Chinese assurances that he and his family would be safe. Today, this critic of China’s abominable one-child policy tells Western reporters that he felt pressured to leave the embassy, that he fears for the lives of his loved ones and that he wants them all to leave China with Mrs. Clinton.
On this National Day of Prayer, let’s pray the Obama administration will put pressure where it should have been all along – on the Communist Chinese to free this brave man and his family.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday May 01, 2012
China's One-Child Policy
Tuesday May 01, 2012
Tuesday May 01, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
For years, a blind Chinese dissident named Chen Guangcheng defied the Communist Party’s dictates and censorship, earning him and his wife chronic beatings under house arrest.
Miraculously, Chen managed to escape last week. He stealthily fled some 300 miles to Beijing, apparently securing American diplomatic protection there. That’s particularly inconvenient, coming as it does on the eve of a major and carefully choreographed bilateral love fest involving a U.S. delegation of several hundred, led by the Secretaries of State and Treasury.
Most inconvenient of all, however, is Mr. Chen’s cause: He has relentlessly campaigned against Communist China’s brutal so-called “one child policy” – a practice that amounts to a genocide against female children. Let’s stand with Chen Guangcheng, and against an authentic Chinese “war on women.”
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Wednesday Apr 11, 2012
Chinese Drama
Wednesday Apr 11, 2012
Wednesday Apr 11, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Chinese politics are undergoing an extraordinary public turmoil amidst a transition to a new generation of leaders. It appears to reflect struggles between those who have been in charge for decades and a faction currying support among the countless millions in China yet to benefit from the country’s economic miracle.
Their champion, a regional party chief whose populism was a throwback to the hardline policies of modern China’s founder, Mao Tse Tung, has recently been purged. That may not end the ferment, though.
The big question is: What role will the Chinese military play in sorting out the future leadership and what price will it extract? Might it be more money for weapons and more latitude to act aggressively – at our expense and that of our allies in Asia and perhaps elsewhere?
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Thursday Mar 29, 2012
A Nefarious Meeting
Thursday Mar 29, 2012
Thursday Mar 29, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Today in New Delhi, leaders of the so-called BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – met to discuss, among other things, how they can supplant the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This is an unfriendly act on the part of nations we are endlessly told are our international partners.
The BRICS initiative comes as another nation that is unmistakably hostile, Iran, has announced that it will henceforth accept currencies other than dollars for its oil.
It is unclear whether these countries or others will be able soon to end the dollar’s reign as the planet’s reserve currency. Such a step would have far-reaching economic – and possibly national security – implications for America, however. Given the stakes, the mere fact that they are trying to do it requires our urgent attention.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012
Chinese Monopoly
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In recent years, Communist China has gained a monopoly with alarming strategic implications. It controls the world’s supply of exotic metals critical to modern electronic devices and economies. They are known as Rare Earth Minerals and the PRC controls roughly 95% of their sources.
The Chinese have been using this monopoly as a weapon against high-tech businesses in Japan, Europe and the United States. Among those affected have been companies that produce flat screens, computer parts and weapon systems for the U.S. military.
The Chinese are also using assured and relatively low-cost domestic access to their rare earths as a means of luring Western enterprises to move to China. The matter is headed to the World Trade Organization. But in the meantime, American economic competitiveness and national security are being imperiled.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
Chinese Transition
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
Tuesday Feb 21, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
A drama is playing out in China with possibly momentous significance for Communist rule there – and for U.S.-Chinese relations.
On February 6th, a top police chief of a Chinese megacity sought asylum in the American consulate in Chengdu, 200 miles away. He reportedly brought with him documents concerning corruption involving China’s leading anti-U.S. nationalist, Bo Xilai.
Bo’s allies sent armored forces to threaten the consulate, which surrendered the would-be defector, Wang Lijun. The Obama administration turned Wang over to the authorities in Beijing rather than upset the U.S. visit of one of Bo’s rivals, the man expected to be China’s next leader, Xi Jinping.
So far, we haven’t surrendered Wang’s documents. We probably will, though – in the process likely emboldening China’s anti-American factions and complicating further the transition there. Stay tuned.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.