Webinar | The Emperor and His Asset: A Damage-assessment on the Xi-Biden Meeting

On Wednesday, President Biden legitimated a serial strategic arsonist with a meeting in San Francisco. Worse yet, as expected, he sought to reward Chinese “dictator” Xi Jinping – who apparently greenlighted invasions of Ukraine by Russia and Israel by Hamas – with a variety of new opportunities for intensified “engagement” with America.

These include fresh, empty promises from Xi concerning the CCP’s ongoing chemical warfare against America via fentanyl; resuscitated military-to-military communications that have actually proven harmful to us in the past; and consultations on artificial intelligence more likely to facilitate Beijing’s theft of our intellectual property than prevent AI’s lethal weaponization by the Communist Chinese.

What really matters, however, is the prospect of U.S. government encouragement of further, expanded American investment in Communist China.

Incredibly, what would amount to yet-another bail-out of Xi’s failing Chinese Communist Party comes as it prepares to ignite “tinder” the CCP has created here over decades of “unrestricted warfare” against us – notably by: hollowing out our industrial base; attacking us with a biological weapon; dividing us with cultural Marxist initiatives like racist “diversity”; and “capturing” elites supposed to protect us against such assaults. (These, among many other examples of such “pre-kinetic” assaults are the subject of over 120 previous webinars by the Committee on the Present Danger: China.)

Even now, Xi is weaponizing TikTok literally to inflame support for Hamas and smuggling in tens of thousands of military personnel to light his next fire across America on command.

All this serves as the background for this CPDC webinar. It provides a post-mortem damage assessment of the Xi-Biden mini-summit on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Council meeting, following up on its pre-mortem on last week.

It features, among other insights, a heartening report that the funding mostly unwitting Americans are being induced by Wall Street to invest in CCP-controlled companies will no longer include past and present military and federal government personnel participating in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan. The Committee welcomes the decision the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) took this week to drop as the sole offering for its International Fund an MSCI index-traded fund that included shares of Chinese/Hong Kong corporations in favor of one that prudently does not.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, co-author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”

Panelists:

- Dr. Bradley Thayer, PhD, Director for China Policy, Center for Security Policy, author, “Understanding the China Threat” – Topic: “Repeating Past Failures of “Engagement” with the CCP is Truly Insane: A Critique of Biden’s Efforts to Prop up, Rather than Take Down the CCP.”

- Charles “Sam” Faddis, Former Career Clandestine Service Officer, Central Intelligence Agency; Army veteran; author, “The Decline and Fall of the CIA”; editor, AndMagazine at Substack – Topic: “The Predictable Outcome of an ‘Asset Meeting’: Biden is Only Following Orders”

- Captain James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet – Topic: “Military-to-Military Contacts Have Never Benefited Us – and Won’t Especially as the CCP Prepares for a Shooting War.”

- Colonel Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Marine Attaché in Japan; former Foreign Service Officer; former East Asia-based corporate executive; author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America;” Senior Fellow, Center for Security – Topic: “The Xi-Biden ‘Reengagement’ Summit – Advancing the CCP’s Efforts to Divide and Conquer America’s Alliances”

- Roger Robinson, President and Co-Founder, Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), former Vice President in the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank, former Chairman of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission – Topic: “A Victory for America in China’s Unrestricted Financial Warfare Against our Service Personnel and Federal Employees.”

- Brian Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; President of American Strategy Group; Former President, Claremont Institute – Topic: “Another Ominous Biden Kow-tow: Where Do We Go from Here?”