BY JENNIFER ZENG
May 8, 2019 Updated: May 8, 2019
WASHINGTON—A newly formed committee is sounding the alarm about the dangers posed by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that is waging unrestricted warfare against the United States, and the group is urging President Donald Trump to go further in opposing the CCP.
In its fourth public event since it was founded in late March, the Committee on the Present Danger: China gathered politicians and experts on Capitol Hill on May 2 to discuss topics such as fifth-generation (5G) communications technology, intellectual property (IP) theft, the nature of the Chinese regime, and U.S. financial support for it.
5G
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said that in an age of the “internet of things,” everything is connected to something, and that something is connected to a network. That is why the United States can’t afford to lose the race for 5G, the coming generation of internet technology. If that network is controlled by the CCP’s version of 5G, all the data in it will be compromised.
Perry used the battle of Gettysburg as an example of how important information is. In what is often described as the turning point in the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate commander, Robert E. Lee, had faulty information about the number and disposition of the Union forces, leading to his defeat.
“If the Chinese control that kind of information,” Perry said, “the battle is already over, unfortunately. … We have become completely reliant upon their technology, because of the cost, because of how pervasive it is, and because it’s just been easy.”
“We will have to recognize that this [technology] is essentially controlling the speech we have among one another, because we speak through one of the devices,” Perry said. “Every single bit of our communications will either be controlled by the United States of America, in our benevolence and our wish to be free and preserve privacy, and ensure the integrity of our intelligence, or information will be controlled by someone else.”
“And they might have the goodwill to do this for us, but they might not. And if they are strategic adversaries that have an interest in overtaking us which, by the way, they do in this case, I suspect they might not be as benevolent.”
Perry said the Chinese are very focused about developing 5G, while, in the United States, we are fighting over a letter that Attorney General William Barr wrote. America needs to develop a coherent strategy for developing 5G, he said.
In response to an audience question regarding whether Trump should use economic warfare as a means to defeat the CCP—as President Ronald Reagan had done to the Soviet Union—Perry said yes, he believes that Trump should go beyond trade itself.
Perry applauded Trump for doing more than any other president regarding China, but warned that Americans have very short attention spans.
In contrast, the CCP has the attitude of “you might have the watch, but we’ve got the time.” The United States must stick with its initiatives against the CCP and adopt very robust and more significant actions to force China into good behavior, Perry said.
IP Theft
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said that in order to have access to the market of 1.4 billion people in China, some U.S. companies made a decision to give up their intellectual property. He indicated that he has less sympathy toward those companies in terms of IP theft.
However, outright theft by the CCP can’t be tolerated, and this is very hard to deal with through trade deals, Johnson said.
“The cyber theft [and] the industrial espionage of our industrial and military secrets [are] completely intolerable. Now, it’s pretty hard to govern that, or control that through trade agreements. They don’t even admit to it.”
Johnson said the Chinese regime has been deploying Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” against the West for millennia, and the United States needs to wake up to that.
The best defense for the United States, Johnson said, is to have a strong economy and rebuild the military.
“I support President Trump’s strong desire to get China to adhere to world norms, trading norms, to try and get them to stop stealing our stuff, to at least acknowledge it, and to open up their markets, as open as ours are, to their products.”
‘Utterly Ruthless’
Brian Kennedy, chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) reminisced about attending a meeting 28 years ago of the original Committee on the Present Danger, which was devoted to countering the threat from the Soviet Union. Since then, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has become a formidable power, and should be taken seriously, he said.
“Even though the title is ‘The Committee on the Present Danger,’ and it makes us sound somewhat pessimistic, I’m optimistic that if the American people knew all the facts that we’ve been laying out, and are going to lay out for you both today and in the future, we can turn around the danger posed by the PRC, however dangerous they are,” Kennedy said.
While the CCP is “extremely dangerous,” Kennedy said it’s important to distinguish the Chinese people from the Chinese Communist Party.
“The people seem a lot like us: hard-working, decent, and willing to make sacrifices. But they’re governed by the Chinese Communist Party. And [the CCP is] utterly ruthless. Their ability to do things is unsurpassed, because they’re willing to kill, and they’re willing to intimidate. We Americans, when we see China today, we don’t understand that.”
Kennedy said that he thinks the president understands that, and that’s why he is taking a very tough stance on trade, and on rebuilding the U.S. military.
Enabling the CCP
Frank Gaffney, vice chairman of CPDC, said a trade agreement with China is unlikely to be fulfilled in its own terms, and will bring very dire repercussions if not done in the context of the myriad dangers that China represents.
Gaffney said through the financial sector and some business leaders, U.S. funds have been used to support the CCP.
“We are enabling, through our underwriting, through our technology transfers—voluntary and involuntary—and through our other forms of support, the Chinese Communist Party and the regime to misrule China, out of our own pockets. And this is, of course, adding very considerable insult to the injury.”
While the CCP is enslaving its own people and plans to expand that to “many others,” “we are doing the enabling of the enslaving,” Gaffney said.
Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-present-danger-the-ccps-unrestricted-warfare-against-the-us_2912323.html
【圖片遊記】臺灣（3）-臺南高雄篇
12月8日，我們於下午和晚上連著在台南和高雄舉辦了兩場《自由中國》放映會，乘高鐵從台中到了台南後，幾乎沒有任何休息時間，立刻被拉到電影院，放映完畢後又驅車趕往高雄。因此再沒有任何「閒情逸致」和時間去「旅遊」或拍攝「旅遊圖片」，所以以下照片全部都是取自《自由中國》臉書的放映會相關照片。到了高雄後，郝毅博累得直想在電影放映前睡一覺，卻不得不強打精神去與熱情等待的粉絲見面。
台南的觀眾也非常多，早早等在大廳裡，排隊請我和郝毅博簽名。
撐雨傘合影，在短短的三天裡，就已經成了「傳統」。
粉絲看電影後，現場購買《九評共產黨》、郝毅博的自傳《我是郝毅博》和我寫的因修煉法輪功陷身中共牢獄經歷的紀實文學《靜水流深》。
郝毅博有小粉絲了。
高雄的放映會是在中山大學裡舉行的，所以觀眾以大學生為主。放映場很大，觀眾也有好幾百。大學生觀眾很活躍，放映會後爭相發言或提問。而我則一時衝動在回答問題的時候分享了一個自己從來沒有分享過的與「內褲」相關的秘密。詳情請參看拙文《臺灣人的小動作與大陸人的防盜內褲》》
雨傘「傳統」在高雄繼續。
打狗亂樂團主唱、金曲獎歌手嚴詠能起來支持。他在放映會後買了《我是郝毅博》和《靜水流深》兩本書，並分別與我和郝毅博合影。他對前來採訪報導放映會的記者表示，在台灣的自由土地長大，了解自由民主的背後是很多人的努力，應該珍惜並重新出發。
很多觀眾都買書並與我們合影。
雨傘高舉。
放映會結束後，觀眾熱情不散。
那天照了很多很多雨傘合影。