Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
On Friday, our PresentDangerChina.org webinar stunningly documented the extent to which the Chinese Communist Party has long engaged in devastating economic warfare against America. 
It underscored the need, at long last, for a comprehensive and effective U.S. response above and beyond what President Trump has commendably done with his tariffs, export restrictions and fees – including, most recently, charges on Chinese ships’ immense use of our ports. 
Make no mistake, China’s hollowing out of our industrial base, its expropriation of U.S. intellectual property and PRC weaponization of Wall Street’s wanton investments there are all part of a comprehensive strategy for taking down this country. 
We must counter with an integrated strategy like the one Ronald Reagan used to take down the Soviet Communist Party if we are to put the CCP on “the ash-heap of history” before it finishes doing that to us.
This is Frank Gaffney.

“Global governance” is a seemingly benign euphemism for destroying our sovereignty and constitutional Republic. After all, if unelected, unaccountable elites and hostile international institutions can tell nations what to do, representative government here will eventually wither away, along with Americans’ freedoms. 
Today, the United States will be defending our founders’ principle of “no taxation without representation” as a UN body called the International Maritime Organization tries to grant itself taxing authority.
If globalists’ priorities need no longer depend for funding on voluntary dues paid by member nations – especially ours, their ability inexorably to impose a world government agenda will be basically unchecked. Given Communist China’s increasingly dominant – and toxic – role in advancing global governance, the stakes couldn’t be higher. 
Thank you, President Trump, for defending our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic! 
This is Frank Gaffney.

With Communist China’s announcement of an intention to impose sweeping new controls on the export and use of its “rare earth” and other critical materials, Beijing is manifestly waging economic war not just on us, but the whole world.
In a somber press conference with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington yesterday, Trade Representative Jamison Greer declared: “China's announcement is nothing more than a global supply chain power-grab….It is an exercise in economic coercion on every country in the world.”
In response, President Trump has threatened to impose a further 100 percent tariff on Chinese imports if the CCP proceeds. Secretary Bessent hopes to buy time, suggesting we just “derisk” our trade ties with China, rather than decouple them.
Depending on our greatest enemy ever for anything important is insane. We must stop underwriting the CCP and start fully decoupling now.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
Yesterday, Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 
Among the many attributes that made Charlie so worthy of this recognition was his relentless defense of liberty and our God-given, unalienable right to it. 
In his final months, Charlie Kirk focused intensively on the threat to freedom posed by adherents of the totalitarian Islamic code called Sharia. He declared flatly that “Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.”
President Trump is confronting that reality in the refusal to date of the Sharia-supremacist group known as Hamas to disarm as required by his Mideast peace deal. The President is right to say they must and will be disarmed. 
But unless that is achieved forcefully, Sharia commands faithful Muslims to lie, violate truces and pursue jihad – and Hamas will do so until it is permanently put out of business.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
A hallmark of Donald Trump’s presidencies has been his commitment that “promises made” will be “promises kept.” In recent days, he secured agreement to a twenty-point plan that promised a durable end to the war in Gaza.
The question now is: Will that promise – and those central to its realization – be kept? 
The latter include: the disarming of Hamas; a demilitarized Gaza with all “military, terror, and offensive infrastructure” destroyed; and the “deradicalization” of Gaza as a terror-free zone. 
With the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from most of Gaza’s cities, however, Hamas has been not only retaining its arms. It has been using them to slaughter opponents who might have been alternatives to the terrorist group’s continued rule. 
Hopes for even a cease-fire, let alone an enduring peace, will be shortlived if promises to end Hamas’ terror permanently are not kept.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
President Donald Trump has achieved the release of all twenty of the surviving hostages seized and brutalized by Hamas two years ago. Praise God!
It remains to be seen, however, at what price it has been achieved. Two thousand terrorists – including some of the most murderous – have potentially been restored to the jihadists’ ranks, as have 85-percent of those released in such previous exchanges. 
How much that will matter is likely to be largely a function of the extent to which Hamas is actually disarmed, dismantled and denied any future role in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Another factor, however, will be the impact of the deal on enemies of Western civilization far beyond those lands.
For Middle East peace to be truly achieved and sustained, we must contend with and defeat the threat posed by Sharia-supremacists, both at home and abroad.
This is Frank Gaffney.