“The CCP is very smart at understanding the divides in American society, and it knows how to target both sides.” In this episode, Jan Jekielek sits down with Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang, creators of the popular YouTube show “China Uncensored.” They’ve been covering Chinese Communist Party propaganda efforts and narrative warfare for more than a decade.
“Food security is our national security. Any nation that’s not food secure is only three meals from chaos. And I think Xi Jinping knows that very well,” says Kip Tom, a 7th generation farmer in Indiana and a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. agencies for food and agriculture. America is a lot less food secure than we may think, says Tom. Over half of all American agrochemical imports come from China. Chinese firms now own Syngenta, an agrochemical and seed giant, and Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, which was the world’s largest pork producer when it was acquired in 2013. There are also concerns that the Chinese communist regime could launch cyberattacks on U.S. agricultural infrastructure and data systems—with major consequences for America’s food supply chain. Tom argues that America needs a “national agricultural strategy” to safeguard American food security and protect agricultural innovation in the United States.
From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online. Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space.
This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Rick Fisher. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on October 5, 2024. Rick Fisher, expert in China’s military capabilities, talks to Jan Jekielek about China’s hegemonic ambition and its global implications - from China’s space programs to its activity in the South China Sea. Fisher is a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.
Jan Jekielek talks to John Lenczowski to discuss America’s failure to understand the nature of the communist China threat, and what should be done to counter it: “If you are dealing with a voracious power, with a revolutionary, ideologically based ambition of unlimited objectives, then appeasement will only whet its appetite.” John Lenczowski is the founder, chancellor, and president emeritus of The Institute of World Politics, a District of Columbia-based graduate school that specializes in the instruments of statecraft and national security. He was the principal Soviet affairs advisor to President Ronald Reagan. “The Chinese have 600 front organizations operating in the United States today trying to influence all sorts of segments of our society,” he says. In America, he says, “there is willful blindness, there is wishful thinking, there is mirror imaging, there is corruption, there are all sorts of business interests who would prefer to try to do harmonious business with the Chinese Communist regime. There were businesses that wanted to make money by doing business with the Soviet Union and with Nazi Germany before that.” According to Lenczowski, “the academic community and the media community have been corrupted effectively by the Chinese Communist regime, academics have learned to respect what I call the four taboos. Don't write about Chinese human rights violations. Don't write about their military buildup, don't write about their espionage, and don't write about their covert political influence operations, many of which also are overt. And so if you don't write about those things, then you'll get a visa to China, and you can go to the country of your expertise and your New York Times Bureau won't be shut down and you won't be expelled for writing things that are offensive to the Chinese Communist regime.” “The academic institutions are addicted to Chinese students who pay full tuition. Many of these students are going into the stem departments. Many of them already have the advanced degrees in engineering that they are seeking in the American institutions. Why would they come and get a duplicate degree? Well, because they learned the basics in China, and now they get to know what the cutting edge research that their professors are engaging in and it’s easy to steal it and to report it to the Chinese Intelligence service.”
This is a condensed version of Jan Jekielek's interview with Gordon Chang. The full version was released on Epoch TV on September 28, 2024. Jan Jekielek interviews Gordon Chang, the author of the new book, “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” to understand the Chinese regime’s strategy to destabilize America, from fentanyl warfare to election disinformation to suspicious activity at the border. “We see momentum toward war, and we Americans have got to ask ourselves, what is going to stop this momentum to war?” Chang says. “The Communist Party People's Daily, the most authoritative publication in China, in a landmark editorial declared in May 2019 a people's war against us, and we're American, so we think we can ignore what our enemies say. But for Communist China, People's War is a phrase that has great resonance going back to the beginning of the People's Republic. Just about a year ago, ‘PLA Daily’ actually defined people's war for us. It said people's war is total war, and we have seen China wage a campaign of unrestricted warfare against the United States.” Gordon Chang: “You have an insecure regime in China. Beijing is worried about the inspirational impact of America's values and form of governance on the Chinese people. So I believe the Communist Party does not think it will ever be safe as long as the United States exists.” Chang about Chinese students in America: “We know that Chinese consular officials and Ministry of State Security agents actually surveil those students and get them to commit espionage, get them to engage in political activities which is inappropriate on our soil, and this is our country. We allow that. Under the communist party's top down system every Chinese national has to obey the instructions and demands of the Communist Party and China's 2017 National Intelligence law actually codifies this in one area where Chinese nationals are required to commit espionage if they receive a demand.” “There must be hundreds, if not 1000s, of Ministry of State Security agents running around our country trying to compromise American politicians.” Chang recommends: “We need to sever all of our contacts with the Chinese regime. I know that that is very strong. I’m not saying it's politically acceptable, but I am saying it is necessary, and the reason is we're being overwhelmed. We are being overwhelmed by a Chinese regime. Our law enforcement is being overwhelmed. Our universities are being overwhelmed, our businesses, Hollywood, just, you name it. And we don't have a hold on this. And until we are able to manage this, we need to take those contacts and sever them. It's going to be tough. It will be painful, as we talked about, but nonetheless, it's necessary, and that's why I'm so concerned, because we are not willing to do what is necessary to save our society.”
Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. The fentanyl trade is a “CCP-run operation,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. He’s the author of, most recently, “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.” In this video, he breaks down the Chinese regime’s disintegration-warfare strategies to destroy America from within—from killing young Americans with fentanyl to radicalizing protests in America so they adopt increasingly violent tactics: "With the precursor chemicals that make fentanyl, 90 percent of them come from China. Those precursors mainly arrive in a single port in Mexico, the port of Manzanillo on the west coast. The international terminal at the port of Manzanillo is not run by a Mexican company. It’s not run by an American company. It’s run by a Chinese company. That is one of the reasons they have a hard time stopping this flow of precursors." "The vast majority of people that are dying of fentanyl overdoses don’t even know they’re taking fentanyl. It’s being laced into illegally made pills that look like Vicodin and Adderall. For the drug cartels to do that, they need pill presses and pill molds, these small molds that make these fake pills look like the real thing. The drug cartels do that, and they get those pill presses and pill molds from China." "Between the Biden family and the fentanyl trade, you literally have one degree of separation, this businessman that gave them this $5 million interest-free loan, which of course, the Bidens never repaid. Honestly, does Joe Biden want to have a conversation about the Chinese involvement in the fentanyl trade?"
