Webinar | Going South: Will Latin America Be Arsonist Xi’s Next Conflagration?

CPDC Webinar to Assess the Prospects for Yet Another CCP Proxy Invasion and More

A big part of intelligence tradecraft – and, for that matter, the basic survival instinct – is pattern recognition. So, CIA analysts, and even mere mortals, should be picking up on an unmistakable similarity between ominous events across the globe that have, time and again, proved to be deeply problematic for the United States, her interests and decreasing number of allies.

First, there was the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022. It was preceded by a meeting between Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping and his “no limits” partner, Vladimir Putin. Within weeks, once Xi’s “Genocide Games” were completed, Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine.

Then, in the months running up to October 7th and the worst pogrom against Jews since World War II accompanied by increasing attacks on American personnel and warships by Iran and its proxies, top mullahs and Palestinian leaders made similar pilgrimages to Beijing.

And after Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro had his meeting with Xi in September, he returned home and began talking of forcibly seizing much of neighboring Guyana and mobilizing his military for that purpose.

See a pattern here?

Obviously, Xi Jinping is igniting these “Bonfires of the Tyrannies.” And, as the Committee on the Present Danger: China has documented in a succession of webinars (see, for example, here, here and here), his purpose transparently is to distract, deplete and otherwise disable the United States and its ability to counter what is surely coming in due course: the CCP’s own aggression, presumably against Taiwan, but probably also us. Worse yet, he has been amassing “tinder” to torch-on our own country, as well, presumably in the immediate run-up to such Chinese belligerence.

This CPDC webinar assesses the prospects for Xi’s pyromania transforming Latin America into yet-another theater in the wider war he has launched to date in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It considers, among other fraught topics: the CCP’s penetration of our hemisphere and that of its proxies, including notably Russia, Iran and Hezbollah; the infrastructure Xi is building throughout the region under his Belt and Road Initiative with which, ultimately, Communist China can project power; and other opportunities now being created and exploited in the region by the CCP & Friends (e.g., fresh revelations about the U.S. State Department’s efforts to subvert the democratic government of our Central American ally, Guatemala). We also examine the Biden administration’s recent announcement of strategic exercises with Guyana.

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:

- Colonel John Mills, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Army Special Operator; former Senior civilian official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security; Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy; author, The Nation Will Follow and War Against the Deep State
Topic: “The Lay of the Land: Is Another Xi-ignited Invasion in the Offing in Guyana?”

- Joseph Humire: Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, Former Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Author of “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America”
Topic: “Xi’s Wildfire Across Latin America”

- Michael Yon, Army Veteran, Combat reporter with decades of experience covering conflicts and crises worldwide
Topic: “The CCP’s Deep Penetration of Latin America – and Our Southern Border: To What Ends?”

- Col. Grant Newsham, USMC (Ret.), Former reserve head of intelligence for Marine Forces Pacific, former Foreign Service Officer, long-time business executive in the Far East, and author, When China Attacks
Topic: “The Strategic Importance of Xi’s Flanking Maneuvers in the Western Hemisphere and Growing Ability to Project Power There and Beyond.”

- Steven Hecht, American expatriate businessman with five decades of experience in Guatemala; columnist for BizPac Review and contributor to the Washington Times
Topic: “Guatemala’s Courageous Prosecutor General Exposes the U.S. State Department’s Criminal Subversion of Her Country’s Democracy – Implications for the Region and Capitol Hill.”