Chapter 33: America’s Anti-Communist Lessons (Part 11)

Second: Launch Large-Scale Anti-Communist Training Programs

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr has urged Apple, Hollywood, and other major institutions to stop kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party, even as they seek renewed cooperation with it. The CCP uses profit as bait to entice American corporations. Corporate leaders may not personally harbor hostility toward the CCP; many may neither understand nor care about its crimes, and thus continue forward in ignorance. Trade wars are not decisive. Victory or defeat will be determined in political warfare and ideological warfare. Former President Richard Nixon once warned:

“If we lose the ideological struggle, all the weapons, treaties, trade, foreign aid, and cultural relations will be meaningless.”

There is much to be done in ideological warfare. It is therefore recommended that “anti-communist training programs” be widely organized to comprehensively expose the crimes of the CCP. Few Americans—including President Trump himself—truly understand the CCP’s crimes, from its history to the present. Without understanding its evil, how can one hate it? How can one resist the temptations of profit? These training programs should also critically review the misjudgments and diplomatic failures of successive U.S. presidents toward China—failures that enabled the CCP to grow powerful and inflict harm on China and the world. From these mistakes, lessons must be drawn to guide today’s struggle against the CCP.

Training materials should be compiled by the U.S. Department of State. Advanced-level programs should invite leading China experts to lecture, such as Michael Pillsbury, Andrew Nathan, Perry Link, Professor Yu Ying-shih, and others. The United States must first win the ideological battlefield before it can defeat communist evil in the economic, political, and cultural arenas.

At present, neither the White House, the State Department, nor Congress has a department specifically responsible for ideological warfare. By contrast, the Communist Party has always maintained two core departments: the Organization Department and the Propaganda Department. The Propaganda Department is specifically responsible for ideology. The CCP’s propaganda apparatus is enormous—Beijing alone employs tens of thousands of personnel. Nationwide, the total number is unknown. What does the United States have in comparison? Perhaps only a small Voice of America operation, which merely provides objective reporting and is not designed specifically for ideological struggle.

The CCP spends tens of billions of dollars annually on its external propaganda (“Grand External Propaganda”) campaign, flooding the world with ideological influence. In the United States and Canada, among 200–300 Chinese-language media outlets of various sizes, an estimated 80–90 percent have been bought off or infiltrated by CCP money and now serve as its mouthpieces, refusing to publish information unfavorable to the CCP. Several million Chinese Americans use WeChat, which is controlled by the CCP. Information unfavorable to the CCP is swiftly deleted or blocked. Chinese people living in free America cannot access free information on WeChat.

During the global spread of COVID-19, China spared no effort in disseminating information favorable to itself, even fabricating false information harmful to other countries. An investigative report published by The New York Times pointed out that China is “inserting” money, power, and viewpoints into media outlets in nearly every country, building alternatives capable of rivaling the BBC and CNN in global influence.
“As the pandemic began to spread, Beijing leveraged its global media infrastructure to promote positive narratives about China across foreign media, while deploying newer strategies such as disinformation campaigns.”
“Driven by new media, China has worked to present its diplomatic actions in the best possible light.”

The group most deeply affected by the CCP’s external propaganda consists of overseas Chinese who can only access Chinese-language information.

The condition of Chinese-American communities is deeply tragic. Millions are trapped within the CCP’s pervasive propaganda infiltration. Ninety percent of Chinese-language media have been bought off; five-star red flags fly everywhere, as if this were China itself. Chinese immigrants arrive in America yet remain slaves of the Party. With several million people, the Chinese-American community should have at least one major newspaper that speaks for freedom and democracy, providing spiritual and intellectual support. If the U.S. government were to fund the establishment of such a media outlet, it would be a monumental contribution to the anti-communist cause.

This major newspaper should be called “Voice of China.” It would reclaim the name “China” from the CCP, which has hijacked it for its own purposes, and decisively separate “China” from the Communist Party. Voice of China would not only represent the voices of millions of Chinese Americans, but also the aspirations for freedom and democracy of 1.4 billion people in mainland China. It would represent the fundamental interests of the entire Chinese people. Its status and scale should be comparable to Voice of America.

The CCP has become the primary enemy of all humanity. The foremost task of our time is to eradicate the communist virus. The U.S. government has traditionally avoided running newspapers, but in the face of communism, it must confront it directly—eye for an eye, infiltration against infiltration, firewall against firewall. The United States must never again treat CCP censorship and repression with unilateral openness, leaving the door wide open for evil to roam unchecked. That is merely a defensive posture to stabilize the situation.

The next step must be an offensive strategy: dismantling the CCP’s Great Firewall, liberating the minds of the Chinese people, and enabling them to become free thinkers. This, the author argues, is a mission entrusted to the United States by God.