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I want to tell you a story about courage and cowardice.

October 13th, 2022. A man in Beijing wakes up before the chilly dawn. His fellow citizens in China have spent two years welded into their homes, locked in quarantine camps, and living under a darkening techno-totalitarian shadow. 

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Early in President Biden’s term, there seemed to be broad continuity in the Administration’s China strategy. 

While not perfect, I’d go as far as to say that, for CCP-realists like myself, there was a lot to like. 

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In 1991, a Chinese academic by the name Wang Huning wrote a book called America Against America—a critique of the internal conflict he found at the heart of American society. 

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The Chinese Communist Party is rewriting the Bible. 

In the Gospel of John, Jesus famously defends a woman caught committing adultery against her accusers, saying “let he among you without sin cast the first stone.” 

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A strange thing has been happening in Beijing. A bridge keeps disappearing. 

From search engines. From maps. And, the Chinese Communist Party hopes, from people’s minds. 

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China’s navy is now the largest in the world, purpose-built for a cross-strait operation to invade  or blockade Taiwan. 

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A friend from China told me an old joke: Under the CCP the future is predictable, but it’s hard to know what is going to happen in the past. 

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There’s an old Soviet joke:

A protester was passing out flyers in Red Square. The KGB showed up and immediately arrested him. When they looked at the flyers, they saw that they were just blank sheets of paper. 

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“Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.”

Joshua Wong wrote these words from a prison cell in 2017. He is back in a prison cell today.

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Thank you all for coming out here early on a Saturday morning in the freezing February cold. 

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Xi Jinping calls it the Chinese Communist Party’s “magic weapon”.

Mao called it one of the two weapons the “heroic warrior” wields to shatter the enemy’s positions.

Were they talking about nuclear technology? Advanced submarines? 

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I have a controversial statement to make this morning: Jimmy Lai is not in prison.

Yes, he might be confined in a cell, surrounded by guards, unable to come and go as he pleases, but Jimmy Lai is not in prison.

Jimmy Lai is free, probably freer than anyone in this room.

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I’m honored to join three storied voices of the Chinese democracy movement.

To be honest, I feel out of place. It’s easy to say critical things about the Chinese Communist Party when you’re a politician in America. It’s easy to tell yourself that you’re standing up for truth.

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Throw a rock in Washington right now and you’re bound to hit someone talking about selective decoupling from China. The lights inside think tanks are staying on late into the night cranking out reports on derisking frameworks. 

But I recently read a provocative paper on selective decoupling.

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A year ago, horrified by the Chinese Communist Party’s crimes in Tibet and Xinjiang, a brave group of Chinese students spoke out against their government.

They were angry that the world allowed China to host the Olympics and couldn’t understand the indifference in their community.

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We are the good guys.

Those five simple words are a radical statement these days. 

Much of the media and academia in our own country have set out to convince you that the United States is a neo-colonial, racist hellscape with no moral authority to lead the free world.

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The Chinese Communist Party’s entire rule is based on lies. Its economic statistics are false. Its Covid19 data was false. Its history, including that of June 4th, 1989, is false. And the CCP’s denial of their ongoing genocide in Xinjiang is false. It may be their greatest lie.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "CCP Transnational Repression: The Party's Effort to Silence and Coerce Critics Overseas." 

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "Discourse Power: The CCP's Strategy to Shape the Global Information Space".

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "The Biden Administration's PRC Strategy". 

The Honorable Matthew Pottinger
Chairman of FDD China Program, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Select Committee Republicans sent a letter to the FBI pressing for more information on its efforts to combat the Chinese Communist Party’s transnational repression. An earlier briefing by the FBI to the Select Committee failed to address key questions on the bureau’s strategy.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Chairman John Moolenaar wrote to the President of Harvard University today, seeking answers after students were forcibly removed by an unidentified individual during an April event with the Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng. The students sought to bring attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s horrendous record of human rights abuses. During the incident, an alleged Harvard student from China dragged one of the students out of the event.

WASHINGTON, DC – Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) Gallagher and Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), alongside members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, today requested a briefing from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and FBI Director Christopher Wray, amidst a drastic increase in Chinese Communist Party spies accessing sensitive military, economic, and technological secrets on U.S. soil. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese citizens gained or to tried to access U.S.