Chapter 16 American Awakening (2)

Vice President Pence condemns Xi Jinping for not only trying to make the domestic media go by the Party name, blow the trumpet for him but also for spending billions of dollars around the world to make big propaganda for the CCP. China International Television reaches 75 million Americans in the U.S. and directly propagates that line of the CCP masters. The CCP-controlled China Students and Scholars Associations which have more than 150 chapters in U.S. universities. They also control the social activities of 430,000 students and scholars. If a student deviates from the CCP’s line, he/she will be denounced to the Chinese embassy or consulate and her family will be harassed at home. The CCP undermines academic freedom and freedom of expression in the United States. Pence said the U.S. will not back down in the face of the Chinese Communist offensive and is determined to defend the American tradition of freedom and security. Pence’s speech sounded the clarion call for a comprehensive U.S. denunciation of the Chinese Communist Party, which will be deployed to contain it on all fronts.

Nikki Hailey, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who retired at the end of 2018, advocated for the organization stand for America in February 2019. China, Russia, Iran as “international threats” and the Chinese Communist Party is “the largest foreign threat to the United States. Hailey pointed out that the former Soviet Union to which the United States fought against during the Cold War, had an economy only a fraction of the size of China’s today and that the U.S.-China confrontation was not the same as the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. She said the U.S. must rethink its national security strategy and improve relations with its allies. The U.S. should rally countries against China and resist the Chinese military threat, strengthen its military, improve its information technology and cyber warfare capabilities and modernize its long-neglected nuclear infrastructure. She noted that, fortunately, there was cross-party support for a policy of confronting CCP’s aggression. The United States faces a life-or-death risk and must act now.

On July 20, 2019, the Committee on Current Dangers, a group of hawkish political, academic, and military leaders, issued a statement calling on President Trump not to become “the fourth U.S. president to save the Chinese Communist regime”. The statement has more than 130 signatures, co-signing a letter to Trump and More than 130 people signed a letter to Trump and Congress, calling on the U.S. government to stick to its hard line against the Chinese Communist Party. “The Committee on the Present Danger, which had been defunct for years, was revived this year in a climate of crisis due to the rising threat of the CCP, with the intent of preventing Trump from compromising with the CCP as he wavered. “The Committee on the Present Danger, which took credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union, is now advocating that the United States should treat the Chinese Communist Party as the Soviet Union and deal with it forcefully.

On July 23, 2020, Secretary of State Pompeo delivered a 25-minute speech on China at the Nixon Memorial Library in Los Angeles: “Communist China and the Future of the Free World”. He said: “If the free society does not join hands to change the CCP, it will wait to be changed by the CCP. He added, “Xi Jinping is a believer in bankrupt totalitarian ideology , and he will not reform it on his own.” If Pompeo’s ideas are adhered to, it is believed that in less than three years, the CCP will change and the United States will be the final gravedigger to bury communism.

Pompeo repeatedly said that the world can only be safe if the Chinese Communist Party is changed to create a China that is free internally and friendly externally. Pompeo pointed out that the CCP has been taking advantage of America’s freedom and openness, infiltrating America, destroying freedom of expression in the media, destroying research centers and academic freedom on campuses. The CCP is afraid of the true voice of the people. If we do not act, the Chinese Communist Party will violate our freedom, destroy our rule of law and order, and our children and grandchildren will be at its mercy.