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CPDC Team Will Brief in Tennessee on
the Present—and Growing—Danger from China
Message for Candidates, Voters and State Officials
NASHVILLE—This morning, the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) will hold the sixth in a series of non-partisan, topical and timely 2020 Policy Battlespace Threat Briefings in Nashville, following ones in Iowa (Jan. 27), New Hampshire (Feb. 3), South Carolina (Feb. 18), Nevada (Feb. 19) and Texas (Feb. 20). These presentations are aimed at informing presidential candidates, the electorate and those who currently represent the latter at the state level about the ominous ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and—thanks in no small measure to financing from U.S. investors—its growing capabilities to act on them.
This Facebook-live-streamed program will take place from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. CST in the Canal A Room at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, where members of the CPDC and other experts will share with participants in the National Religious Broadcasters Convention information about the CCP’s brutal repression of Christians and other faith communities—including via industrial-grade organ harvesting—and the menace it poses to the rest of us.
The CPDC Threat Briefing will address the urgent need for presidential candidates competing in the Tennessee primary, and those whose votes they seek, to understand the multifaceted and proliferating dangers posed by the Chinese Communist Party to this country and the world. After all, our next Commander-in-Chief will have to contend with and counter China’s decades-long “unrestricted warfare.” And those doing the hiring for that position have a need to know that the applicants are up to what is certain to be Job 1 in the national security portfolio—and probably the economic and public health ones, as well.
A particular focus of these CPDC presentations, both at these public events and in separate conversations with leading state executive and legislative branch representatives, is the dangerous contribution being made to the Chinese threat by individual and institutional U.S. investors—including among the latter state pension funds. Concern about this practice has been intensifying as evidenced by remarks Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made to the nation’s governors on Feb. 8 and a letter sent by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana to California Gov. Gavin Newsom concerning a Chinese expatriate who has publicly expressed his commitment to “work for the motherland [i.e., Communist China]” and is currently the Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees Retirement System, which has $370 billion in assets.
The Committee on the Present Danger: China seeks to establish whether the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) holds Chinese companies in its portfolios and, if so, which ones. If that is the case, TCRS is, wittingly or unwittingly, underwriting CCP-owned or -affiliated companies engaged in behavior inimical to our vital interests, economic competitiveness and/or national security.
Participants in this important event will be:
- Frank Gaffney*, former Assistant Secretary of Defense (acting) and the CPDC’s Vice Chairman
- Dr. Sean Lin*, a survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre, executive director of the Global Alliance against Communist Propaganda and Disinformation, U.S. Army veteran and a Falun Gong practitioner
- Other participants are TBD
*Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China
Following the Threat Briefing, the CPDC team looks forward to discussing the foregoing issues with state government officials and members of the media.
The mission of the Committee on the Present Danger: China is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the Committee on Present Danger: China.
