Secure Freedom Minute

Secure America’s “Pacific Heartland” Now!

On Saturday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth marked the 80th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima, liberated from Imperial Japan in World War II at a cost of 26,000 killed.
This occasion, like the rest of Pete’s travels across the Western Pacific last week, offered a most-needed reminder of the importance of the vast region’s strategic islands – and the magnitude of the folly of allowing Communist China to dominate any of them.
Simply put: We risk having to pay again in blood and treasure to reverse another totalitarian foe’s imperialism – and the attendant threat to our vital interests in what the great strategist Cleo Paskal described in a recent PresentDangerChina.org webinar as America’s “Pacific heartland.”
We must now actualize Secretary Hegseth’s highly visible, and most welcome, commitments to support our allies there and counter our mutual enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.

Focus on Deterring Incipient Attacks

It’s a bad time for official Washington to be consumed with a Signal group chat involving top national security officials and a highly partisan journalist. After all, Russia and China appear poised for military aggression that, if not deterred, could prove catastrophic.
Reportedly, there are multiple divisions worth of Russian troops massing in Belarus near its borders with NATO members Poland and the Baltic States. 
And the Chinese Communists are now exercising – without prior notice – the use of air and sea forces against Taiwan, the latest incremental step towards surprise attacks there, and perhaps far beyond. 
Regrettably, our ability to dissuade these “no limits” partners from engaging, presumably jointly, in aggression is largely locked in for the short-term – and probably seriously discounted. Therefore, we must ensure our adversaries are not further encouraged to strike by our perceived internal divisions and distractions.   
This is Frank Gaffney.

Will the SEC Enforce America First Investing - or China First?

For a dozen years, millions of U.S. investors have unwittingly had their pensions, college savings and other funds used to underwrite companies working for the Chinese military. That means they’ve helped our mortal enemy buy the weapons that may be used to kill them – and countless other Americans. 
President Trump has announced an America First Investment Policy to end this insane practice. But top Wall Street leaders like Jamie Dimon, Brian Moynihan, Ted Pick and David Solomon are helping to raise at least another $7 billion for one such company called CATL. Their “China First” policy subverts Mr. Trump’s, and threatens our national security.
Today, Paul Atkins will have his nomination to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission considered in a Senate Banking Committee hearing. We need to know: Will he help enforce America First investing – or further enable the Chinese threat?    

At Last, Gazans are Demanding an End to Hamas

Yesterday saw a potential breakthrough in the conflict in Gaza. It wasn’t the result of diplomacy. Or thanks to the renewed Israeli offensive there, although it surely was a contributing factor.
Rather, for the first time since the war began when Hamas and not a few Gazan civilians murderously invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, Gaza saw large public demonstrations against – wait for it – HAMAS! 
Protesters waving white flags and denouncing the terrorists who have long oppressed, brainwashed and weaponized them and relentlessly used them as human shields, causing thousands of needless casualties and destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques and other infrastructure.
Unless Hamas kills more of its own people, they just might be able to terminate the jihadists’ reign of terror – and create conditions for finally ending the war in Gaza and allowing them to live far better lives elsewhere. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Hold China's U.S. Financial Four Horsemen Accountable

Last month, President Trump rolled out an “America First Investment Policy.” It explicitly seeks to end Wall Street’s longstanding practice of investing Americans’ funds in Communist Chinese companies – especially those tied to the People’s Liberation Army.
Four U.S. financial leaders – Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan, Morgan Stanley’s Ted Pick and Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon – however, are determined to continue their China First investing. They hope shortly to raise $7 billion or more for what the Pentagon calls a “Chinese military company” named CATL. It’s also accused of exploiting slave labor.
Those helping finance what President Trump calls a “foreign adversary” need to be held accountable for making China ever more dangerous. They are imperiling our families and communities. 
China’s U.S. financial Four Horsemen may not care about yours. If you do, say so at PresentDangerChina.org. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Will South Korea be Spared National Suicide?

South Korea’s Constitutional Court took a crucial step away from national suicide today. It rejected the impeachment of the county’s acting president approved by the country’s communist-dominated parliament. 
It remains to be seen if the Court will do the same for the actual, elected president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached for declaring martial law in the face of parliamentary subversion. As the South Korean people have recognized the threat to their freedoms posed by the so-called Democratic People’s Party that now dominates and weaponizes the legislature, they have launched massive demonstrations calling for President Yoon’s exoneration.
The Chinese Communist Party’s fingerprints are all over this constitutional crisis. Its threat to the Western Pacific would metastasize enormously if a vital American ally is taken out. Let us pray that the Constitutional Court stands in the gap once again and with President Yoon. 
This is Frank Gaffney.