Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
Communist China is in trouble. The cumulative effect of various economic, environmental and demographic problems precipitated by decades of Chinese Communist Party misrule is translating into acute political turmoil. There is growing speculation that dictator Xi Jinping’s grip on absolute power is imperiled.
That crisis presents President Trump with a momentous choice: Come to the CCP’s rescue, as did his predecessors Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Or, like Ronald Reagan, help liberate people enslaved and murdered by a regime that mortally threatens us.
Mr. Trump’s announcement that he’ll admit six hundred thousand PRC students – reportedly a priority of, and favor to, Xi – suggests he’s willing to prop up the CCP. Having what could translate into a million fighting-age Chinese nationals in the United States, however, is an obvious threat to our country, and the wrong choice regarding China. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Cracker Barrel has jettisoned a corporate reboot abandoning its traditional extolling of Americana after overwhelming repudiation by consumers and shareholders. President Trump needs to make a similar reversal concerning a vastly more problematic departure from his “America First” brand.
Mr. Trump says he’ll give six-hundred thousand Chinese nationals student visas. If added to the two hundred and seventy thousand already in the U.S. and a hundred thousand other, military-age men believed to be PRC soldiers let in by Joe Biden, we’d have roughly a million foreigners obliged by their country’s law to put China first. 
That invites disaster. The CCP makes no secret of its determination to destroy this country and has pursued for decades “unrestricted warfare” to that end. 
Mr. Trump needs to reverse course to impede such threats by removing, not reinforcing, potential enemies inside America.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
As young people head to school across America, President Trump announced they are going to have company from Communist China – a lot of company. He declared yesterday that he will admit six-hundred thousand Chinese students to help us “get along with China.”
Mr. Trump didn’t elaborate on the timing of the arrival of all those PRC nationals – many of whom are members of the Chinese Communist Party and all of whom are obliged to engage in espionage, intellectual property theft or sabotage if ordered to do so by the CCP. 
Whenever these dual-use students arrive, they’ll join perhaps one-hundred thousand alleged Chinese soldiers Joe Biden let in. Recall the damage done to our country by nineteen amateurs on 9/11 and it’s clear we cannot afford to have an actual army of professionals and their potential student interns here from China. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
President Trump has a potentially fraught meeting today with his new South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung. While the focus will be on trade relations, there will be an ominous elephant in the room: Lee is deeply hostile to the United States and dangerously aligned with our enemies, Communist China and North Korea.
As my colleague, retired Marine Colonel Grant Newsham, observed recently in Asia Times, Lee has “referred to American troops in South Korea as ‘occupiers’ and said China should do what it wants to Taiwan.” It is hard to overstate the strategic peril associated with the “fundamental transformation” of a key American ally now in prospect. 
The question is: Will Mr. Trump come to grips with Lee’s longstanding hostility or try to paper it over in the interest of making “progress” on trade? Much will be riding on the answer.
This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 
In America, there’s a growing awareness of and concern about Islam’s totalitarian code known as Sharia. Its practitioners are increasingly on the march around the world and in this country. 
For example, in Britain, Sharia-condoned gangs of immigrants are estimated to have raped a million native girls. In Nigeria, Syria, and elsewhere, Christians are being attacked, murdered and driven out by Sharia-supremacists. And a court in Austria just condoned the use of Sharia to settle commercial disputes. 
Here in Texas, jihadism-aligned Muslims are establishing incipient Sharia-adherent communities. Un-permitted Islamic praying increasingly takes over public spaces. And in New York and elsewhere, Sharia’s followers are joining forces with the radical left to gain elective office.  
Sharia is not a constitutionally protected religion, but an instrument of political warfare and control aimed at overthrowing governments and societies like ours. It must be opposed, not accommodated.
This is Frank Gaffney.

The untimely death of the governor of America’s westernmost territory has called attention to inroads being made there by our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party.
China’s visa-free access to the islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, its gambling operations there awash with billions of dollars and its nationals’ illegal access to nearby Guam are among the reasons the late Gov. Arnold Palacios pleaded for investigations, audits and other help from a largely indifferent Washington, thousands of miles away.
Unfortunately, as the Daily Signal recently reported, a man who facilitated such ominous Chinese activities in CNMI is now the top official in DC responsible for the territory and federal funds flowing there.
Interior Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Angel Demapan should be under investigation, not in a position to help the CCP further penetrate – and endanger – our Western frontier.
This is Frank Gaffney.