Secure Freedom Minute

What if Chinese Communist emperor Xi Jinping is lying to Donald Trump, like he did to his top generals? 
The President has repeatedly reported Xi told him Taiwan would not be invaded during the second Trump administration. While that’s obviously desirable, the implication that Communist China will invade after Trump leaves office is ominous. It also seems increasingly unlikely. 
The People’s Liberation Army is now regularly rehearsing decapitation attacks, blockades and other invasion scenarios against Taiwan’s main island. Xi is fracturing America’s alliances. And he has his country on a war-footing.
Xi is also a practiced liar. Just ask the top generals he has systematically purged, obviously having told the most recent victims they would not share the earlier ones’ fate. Their replacements will likely be all-in for invasion, and the truth is, it could – and probably will – come at any time. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Donald Trump and Democrats appear to agree that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement effort to find and remove illegal immigrants requires a reboot. 
Unfortunately, the changes the President’s partisan opponents want would effectively preclude many ICE operations. He is resisting some, but has agreed that Democratic governors and mayors can preclude them in their jurisdictions. 
A new bestseller by Peter Schweizer makes clear that what’s needed to secure this country is very different. The Invisible Coup lays bare the subversion that is now afoot at the hands of foreign enemies and their domestic allies. 
Consequently, ICE – and, as needed, other elements of the U.S. government – should urgently be tasked with identifying and neutralizing the large numbers of Chinese soldiers, jihadists and others here and determined to destroy or “reconquer” this country. 
Americans enabling such subversion must be held accountable, too. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump recently announced that a new company would control TikTok’s powerful algorithm in the United States. Its owners include Larry Ellison’s Oracle, a U.A.E. AI company, and – wait for it – the platform’s Chinese Communist Party-controlled founder, Bytedance. TikTok’s Chinese CEO will serve on its Board of Directors.
How exactly this will work with respect to the CCP’s toxic weaponization of TikTok remains to be seen. The continuing involvement of Chinese nationals and the parent company is concerning. So is the fact that TikTok’s surveillance, propaganda and influence operations will persist outside the U.S. on platforms supposed to be seamlessly accessible to American users.
President Trump credits Chinese dictator Xi Jinping with approving this deal. Probably that’s because Xi’s sure the CCP will still be able to addict, disinform, manipulate and mobilize young Americans – and profit handsomely in the process. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Europeans have been sharply critical of President Trump for his insistence that U.S. security requires actual ownership of Greenland. Formerly Great Britain is, however, giving everyone an object lesson on why that’s so.
The UK’s hard-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer is currently in Beijing negotiating a new “strategic partnership” with Communist China. Simultaneously, he’s seeking parliamentary approval to surrender British sovereignty over – and, inevitably, U.S. use of – Diego Garcia, a strategically vital base in the Indian Ocean. 
The Chinese would be the principal beneficiary of such a betrayal, and probably ultimately the inheritors of that base, as they were Afghanistan’s Bagram.
The President has rightly called Starmer’s sellout on Diego Garcia an act of “great stupidity.” He must now inform the Brits that the United States formally rejects the deal and will take ownership of the island if they relinquish it. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

It’s appalling that Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of a nation with the history of the once-Great Britain, is currently not simply groveling before China’s Communist Emperor Xi Jinping. He’s actively appeasing freedom’s mortal enemy. 
Last week, the U.K. approved a vast new Chinese embassy in London. Now, Starmer wants Parliament to bless a disastrous deal likely to result in the Chinese taking over a strategic U.S. military installation called Diego Garcia. 
Dozens of influential British and American patriots are issuing today a powerful public statement opposing this unforced error of epic proportions. 
Coming in the wake of Canada’s odious “separate peace” with the Chinese Communist Party last week, London’s pursuit of a new “special relationship” with Beijing can only further embolden Xi Jinping – and invite his aggression at the expense of Taiwan and what else is left of the Free World. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Is the special relationship done? The question of whether the longstanding and unique bond between the United States and Britain is now toast arises as the U.K.’s hard left government prepares to unilaterally disarm not only itself, but America, as well.
That would be the practical effect of one of history’s worst international agreements. Pursuant to a “deal” awaiting parliamentary approval in London, the British government would pay billions of dollars to the Chinese Communist-tied African nation of Mauritius to imperil the U.S. military’s essential use of the Indian Ocean island base called Diego Garcia over 1200 miles away. 
Worse yet, if the Brits miss even a single payment, Mauritius can terminate their lease. 
President Trump has correctly described this deal as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY.” Parliament must repudiate it, or bid farewell to the special relationship.
This is Frank Gaffney.