China's global supremacists: Communists in Beijing have grand ambitions WashTimesOpEd
Program at FDD), proved his point by quoting at length from statements made by CCP Chairman Xi Jinping.
Mr. Xi is determined to overturn “U.S. leadership around the globe,” Mr. Pottinger explained. More than that, Mr. Xi “seeks to upend the concept of equal and sovereign states that emerged from Europe four centuries ago and is the cornerstone of international relations.” Perhaps you’re thinking that skilled diplomacy and “trust-building measures” would help. When he worked in the White House, Mr. Pottinger tried a kinder, gentler approach. He found that one “of the paradoxes of Marxist-Leninist dictatorships is that the more comfortable they are, the more aggressive they become. Gratuitous efforts to reassure Beijing are sure to be taken as signs of weakness.”
A byproduct of this approach: American administrations have downplayed or even ignored the CCP’s mind-bogglingly enormous theft of American intellectual property, audacious espionage , the establishment of Confucius Institutes to spread propaganda and control of Chinese students on American campuses, the replacement of international civil servants at the U.N. and elsewhere with Beijing’s agents, the setting up of CCP police stations in U.S.
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