A Bipartisan Hearing That Matters: How CCP Is Silencing Dissent… Right Here In America
Maybe CCP cheerleaders in government and business should consider the DOWNside
It’s strange, isn’t it? Politics and business are both industries where opportunities are weighed against risk before even the smallest of decisions.
Isn’t it time we started looking at some ‘downsides’ they have been ignoring because the short-term gain was just TOO irresistable?
While the world was busy arguing about COVID and who got to control whom, China was quietly stripping Hong Kong and its citizens of their legal rights in a hostile takeover that was no less a violation of law than Putin’s takeover of Crimea.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Hong Kong’s political rights and freedoms were already doomed to being lost to Chinese Communist dictators, but those legal rights of self-determination were still ‘guaranteed’ on paper for a few more years.
A guarantee on paper only means something when there are meaningful balances of power and curbs on the misuse of authority. But then, Biden’s DOJ knows all about guarantees on paper, don’t they?
One of the few areas of Congress in which the task is divided along hostile party lines is the Select Committee on the CCP. They had a hearing yesterday that deserves far more attention that it got.
Short version: The jackboot tactics that China uses to intimidate, control, and coerce its own citizens at home are being used abroad as well. That includes America.
It’s only going to get worse.
The thousands of adult male Chinese nationals streaming in through the Southern Border came to mind when one Chinese witness expressed concerns that kidnapping and violence is a likely future outcome.
Two short examples from the testimony of owe witness will give a taste of what the hearing was about:
“Even those in America don't want to reach out to me a they don't want to be watched.” — @AnnaKwokFY explains how the Chinese Communist Party stifles organizing on US soil. pic.twitter.com/cH9GkCIQQD
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) December 14, 2023
“United Front is what enables transnational repression…
The bipartisan legislation called the Transnational Repression Policy Act is a way for us to start building capacity for US institutions as well.”— @AnnaKwokFY pic.twitter.com/zeowUix6kQ
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) December 14, 2023
