Webinar | Victory 2024: Donald Trump’s Mandate and What We Must Do Now to Defeat the CCP

According to exit polls, President Donald Trump’s stunning victory was due in no small measure to the belief of roughly three-quarters of voters that the United States was on “the wrong track.” While, as usual, domestic concerns about the economy were top of mind for many Trump voters, the Republican ticket’s strong indictment of the foreign, national and homeland security policies of the incumbent administration clearly resonated, as well.

That is most palpably true of the Biden-Harris policy of opening the border to millions of illegal aliens, including among them, tens of thousands of Chinese People’s Liberation Army personnel.

But the Trump-Vance team also campaigned on the dangers posed by, among other things, the CCP’s: predatory trade practices; fentanyl chemical warfare; COVID-19 biological warfare; alliance with and enabling of other adversaries like Russia and Iran; efforts to achieve world government with Chinese characteristics; and contributions to the threat of World War III.

The mandate President Trump received, including by winning the popular vote, extends to the task of effecting a course correction with respect to the U.S. policy concerning our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party. The goal – as with the Reagan mandate of 1980 vis a vis the Soviet Communist Party and “the existential threat to freedom” posed by its regime – must be nothing less than the destruction of the CCP, which poses a far greater threat than the CPSU did in its prime.

This CPDC offers specific steps that the second Trump administration must take to advance this goal.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

- Gordon Chang, Esq., Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute; columnist, Newsweek; author, “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,” “China is Going to War,” and “The Coming Collapse of China” – Topic: “The Trump Mandate and the Coming Strategic Course-Correction”

- Roger Robinson, Chairman, Prague Security Studies Institute; former Senior Director, International Economic Affairs, Reagan National Security Council; former Chairman, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission – Topic: “Reagan 2.0: Stop U.S. Underwriting of the CCP’s ‘Bad Actor’ Corporations”

- Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor, Epoch Times; host of the show “American Thought Leaders” – Topic: “Securing Human Rights: Helping Protect the Chinese People from CCP Organ Harvesting, Religious Persecution and Other Crimes Against Humanity”

- Dave Walsh, Energy executive; former President, Mitsubishi Power; principal, Takota Group – Topic: “Restoring Energy Security and Dominance, Ending our Energy Dependence on the CCP”

- Brian Kennedy, Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; former President, the Claremont Institute; President, the American Strategy Group – Topic: “A Mandate for Change: Leadership, Personnel, Public Outreach”

- Trevor Loudon, Author, Enemies Within; filmmaker; member, Committee on the Present Danger: China – Topic: “Countering the CCP’s Elite Capture – a Plan for Exposing and Rolling up Its ‘Old Friends’”

- John Lenczowski, Founder and Chancellor, Institute of World Politics; former Director, European and Soviet Affairs, Reagan National Security Council – Topic: “Wielding Public Diplomacy to Undermine the CCP’s Legitimacy, Free the Chinese People”

- Charles “Sam” Faddis, Senior Editor, AndMagazine.Substack.com; former career Clandestine Service Officer; Army veteran; author, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA – Topic: “Rooting out the ‘Leave-behinds’: Countering the Subversion of the Trump Presidency from Within”

- Todd Bensman, National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies; author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History; contributor, New York Post – Topic: “Fixing the Border: Fencing, Fentanyl, Immigration Policy and Finding and Removing the PLA Troops Here”