TRUMP ON CHINA • PUTTING AMERICA FIRST
camps, this process annihilates family, religion, culture, language, and heritage.[1] Under the Chinese Communist Party, information istightly controlled and expression is constantly surveilled, so that it can be quashed or shaped by the state.[2]
Americans should be concerned. We should not be concerned only for the Chinese people but also for ourselves. Xi Jinping’s ambitions for ideological control are not limited to his own people. The Chinese Communist Party’s stated goal is to create a “Community of Common Destiny for Mankind,” and remake the world in its image. The effort to control thought beyond the borders of China is well under way.[3]
Over the past decade, the Party has invested billions of dollars into overseas propaganda operations to great effect. The Chinese Communist Party has moved to eliminate ‘unfriendly’ Chinese language media outlets worldwide, and is close to succeeding.[4] Nearly every Chinese
- ↑ Congressional-Executive Commission on China, “Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang,” October 17, 2019, https://www.cecc.gov/events/hearings/forced-labor-mass-internment-and-social-control-in-xinjiang. See also International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, “China Cables,” November 2019, https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw3Nv3BRC8ARIsAPh8hgLXPhPHJydiGsyuMpKTlK1JE-CDJc2bIkMz9ef6VCiHpiD7EunoE8IaAj-CEALw_wcB. Also see “Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Shriver Press Briefing on the 2019 Report on Military and Security Developments in China,” May 3, 2019, https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/1837011/assistant-secretary-of-defense-for-indo-pacific-security-affairs-schriver-press/
- ↑ Freedom House, “Chinese Communist Party’s Media Influence Expands Worldwide,” January 14, 2020, https://freedomhouse.org/article/chinese-communist-partys-media-influence-expands-worldwide
- ↑ See, for example, Samantha Hoffman, “China’s Tech-Enhanced Authoritarianism,” May 16, 2019, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20190516/109462/HHRG-116-IG00-Wstate-HoffmanS-20190516.pdf and “Engineering global consent,” October 14, 2019, https://www.aspi.org.au/report/engineering-global-consent-chinese-communist-partys-data-driven-power-expansion. Also see Sarah Cook, “Beijing’s Global Megaphone,” 2020, https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/beijings-global-megaphone. Also see Hal Brands, “What Does China Really Want? To Dominate the World,” May 20, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-20/xi-jinping-makes-clear-that-china-s-goal-is-to-dominate-the-world.
- ↑ Louisa Lim, Julia Bergin, “Inside China’s Audacious Global Propaganda Campaign,” The Guardian, December 7, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
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