Webinar | How NOT to Deter War with the CCP: Is Biden Setting the Stage for Our Own Defeat?

This webinar in the Committee on the Present Danger: China’s weekly webinar series addressed how the Biden administration – most recently in the person of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin – has responded to the escalating bellicosity of the CCP. Of special interest is the likelihood that its Chinese counterparts are reading U.S. passivity and preoccupation with bilateral “competition and cooperation” (as Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it recently) as provocative weakness.Show more

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America T.V., Vice Chair, Committee on the Present Danger: China; co-Chair of the Stop Vax Passports Task Force

Panelists:

- Steven Mosher, President, Population Research Institute, first American social scientist to visit mainland China, Author, “A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy” and “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order”

- Capt. James Fanell, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute

- Dr. Bradley Thayer, Founding Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China, Author, How China Sees the World