Secure Freedom Minute

Evidence is accumulating that the Chinese Communist Party is poised to add a shooting war to the pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” against America in which it has long engaged. Increasingly shrill rhetoric about the United States – including Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s recent comment that conflict is “inevitable” if we do not change course – is being accompanied by, among other things, the stand-up of defense mobilization offices across China.
Center for Security Policy expert Dr. Bradley Thayer says dictator Xi Jinping is preparing his people for the sacrifices associated with a long conventional, or even a nuclear, war with the United States. He believes that will entail violent action against the American homeland, not just our friends, interests and assets in the Western Pacific.
U.S. leaders’ failure to warn our people of this danger, and act now to deter it, is criminally malfeasant.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The Marx Brothers had a famous routine in which, when they were engaged in an obvious flim-flam, an incredulous observer was asked: “Who you gonna believe – me or your own eyes?”  
That question occurs in the wake of a congressional hearing on Tuesday examining whether the so-called COVID-19 virus came from nature or was genetically engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China tied to the CCP’s illegal biological warfare program. Every witness agreed that the lab origin hypothesis is not some off-the-wall “conspiracy theory.” 
Indeed, yesterday’s testimony establishes what your own eyes can clearly see: Dr. Tony Fauci was spending taxpayer money at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to pay for the sort of genetic modifications to corona viruses found in the original COVID one. He lied to cover that up and must be held accountable for doing so.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tore into Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing clips from official videos that reveal the events of January 6, 2021 did not amount to a “violent insurrection.”  
The now-available evidence establishes that, compared with what Democrats and their media proxies insisted were “mostly peaceful demonstrations” as Black Lives Matter and Antifa mobs sacked cities across the country in 2020, violence in the Capitol that day, while deplorable, was exceptional, limited and at least some of it apparently caused by provocateurs.  
Sen. Schumer declared, “When people don’t believe elections are on the level, that’s the beginning of the end of this bold experiment in democracy.” Actually, the beginning would be when, as in 2020, the public has abundant reason to believe elections are not free and fair – notwithstanding “Big Lies” from him and other partisans.  
This is Frank Gaffney.  

The Wall Street Journal disclosed this week that the Chinese Communist Party has again penetrated our country, this time in a way that is far more dangerous and difficult to counteract than its recent spy balloon escapade.
Giant Chinese-supplied cranes used to move containers at ports across the country lend themselves to intelligence collection and disruptions. What could possibly go wrong, especially in the event of conflict?
 
The short answer is: Plenty. Worse yet, our dependency on such cranes is just one example of our insane practice of putting equipment from China in our critical infrastructure. Possibly even more catastrophic is our reliance on some 400 Chinese high-voltage transformers now integrated into our electric grid.
 
Mr. Trump promised Saturday that, if reelected, he would propose a four-year plan to wean ourselves off of “essential goods” from China. That must start now.
 
This is Frank Gaffney.

About ninety minutes into an epic CPAC speech on Saturday, Donald Trump declared anew that the United States must withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party-controlled World Health Organization, better known as the WHO. 
In classic Trumpian fashion, he said those letters stand for “We Hide Outbreaks.” Alternatively, there’s “We Help Othering” or “We Host Operations.”  
The WHO has reliably done all three for the CCP – at horrific cost to Americans and others. It lied about the nature of the COVID-19 virus. It justified the divide-and-conquer technique that “othered” the unvaccinated. And it systematically promoted the totalitarian “China Model” of lockdowns and jab mandates that crushed our economy, stole our freedoms and helped defeat President Trump. 
Now, the Chinese Communists and Team Biden want to give the WHO even more control over us. We must leave it now.  
This is Frank Gaffney.  

The Biden administration is currently consumed with a war it failed to deter in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Team Biden’s willful blindness about a far greater threat – namely, the Chinese Communist Party and its determination to dominate the world – risks a failure to deter the CCP from opening a second front in the Pacific. It could begin at any time, perhaps with a distracting attack by North Korea on its neighbors and our forces on their territories.
Worse still, yet another war front looms. Thanks to two years of delusional Biden diplomacy that simply bought time for Iran to complete its nuclear weapons program, the mullahs are now assessed to have enough highly enriched uranium to get the Bomb within days.
For over four decades Iran’s regime has promised “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” Will Joe Biden fail to deter that, too?
 
This is Frank Gaffney.