President Joe Biden lays out today his foreign policy priorities. At the moment, they seem to be characterized by one principle: Not Trump. Donald Trump opposed the Chinese Communist Party’s “people’s war” against this country and its “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims. Will a President Biden, deeply compromised by the CCP, return to the Obama practice…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Of President Biden’s many problematic initiatives aimed at nullifying the Trump legacy, his rebooting of U.S. Middle East policy is particularly ominous. Its hallmarks are: promoting the Palestinians over Israel; dissing the United Arab Emirates that made peace with the Jewish State; and, worst of all,…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. On Sunday, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” program warned that the Chinese Communist Party is hoovering up our DNA and other personal medical data. By some estimates, eighty percent of us have already had such information ripped off by PRC companies that are obliged to share it…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Americans were horrified to learn in the early days of the Chinese Communist Party-induced pandemic that our country is acutely dependent on China for protective gear and medicines. Now we’re discovering the PRC supplies another determinant of our public health and safety: the U.S. electric grid.…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A prominent Chinese influence operator named Di Dongcheng recently bragged that China’s “old friends” on Wall Street had for decades ensured that U.S. government policy suited Beijing. He relished the prospect that, after a rough patch with Donald Trump, America would once again be submissive to…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, President Joe Biden placed “climate change at the center of our domestic, national security and foreign policy.” The clear implication is that the very real – and growing – threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the mullahs of Iran are…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The bloom may be coming off the rose of the Biden-Harris presidency. Or maybe it’s just buyer’s remorse as millions of Americans who voted for Joe Biden – and others whose votes against him weren’t accurately counted – are confronting the reality that he’s certainly not…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among the most insidious legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency was the wrecking operation he conducted against the U.S. military. It was defunded, disarmed and subjected to social experimentation without regard for the adverse consequences for our troops’ warfighting capabilities, readiness and morale. Tragically, Joe Biden is…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A preeminent concern about a Biden-Harris presidency is whether those two “old friends” of Communist China will do its bidding to America’s great detriment. One of the administration’s first, ominous acts suggests they are so inclined. An initial Biden Executive Order clears the way for the…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. One of the few – actually, very few – good news items to come out of the first days of the Biden-Harris administration is a glimmer of robust bipartisan opposition to the Chinese Communist Party. Before he left office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared the…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. If anyone doubted that “elections have consequences,” look no further than Joe Biden’s busy first day in the White House. The new President immediately reversed a number of his predecessor’s policies. Among the blizzard of problematic Executive Orders he signed on “Day One” were directives that…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. America gets a new President today. So does Communist China, and the rest of the world. Joe Biden is expected to take immediately a number of steps aimed at reversing his predecessor’s “America First” policies. Many of these – and others sure to come – will…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. My old boss, Ronald Reagan, warned that every generation faces an existential threat to freedom. Unfortunately, we face a number of them. If our enemies prevail, Reagan believed, “We will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like to…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The State Department has just confirmed that a Chinese laboratory suspected of being the source of the Covid-19 virus that’s killed nearly 400,000 Americans is associated with the Beijing regime’s illegal biological weapons program. Unfortunately, this is but the latest proof that the Chinese Communist Party…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yet another, staggering cost of the deadly virus unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party has just been reported. Open Doors USA’s annual World Watch List released yesterday reveals that the number of Christians experiencing heavy persecution now exceeds 340 million. That’s more people than live in…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. A top Chinese Communist Party influence operator boasted recently that China’s “old friends” on Wall Street have, for decades, successfully compelled the U.S. government to do Beijing’s bidding. A prime example was the 2013 deal brokered by then-Vice President Joe Biden that gave the CCP preferential…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Our seventieth Secretary of State is arguably the best in our nation’s history. Certainly, few, if any, can match Mike Pompeo’s brilliance, his clarity about America’s vital role in the world and his courage in countering the dangers we face internationally. Consider two examples of such…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among President Trump’s most important legacies is depriving the Chinese Communist Party of U.S. investors’ continued underwriting of its military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, that legacy is being seriously jeopardized by what is nominally the Trump Treasury Department. The huge impact of the Executive Order Mr. Trump issued…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. German poet Martin Niemöller famously described how the Nazis achieved absolute power, warning: “First, they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.” He remained silent when they came for other groups of which he was also not…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. As Americans are preoccupied with the cumulative effects of a pandemic unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party, an election roiled by, among other things, CCP influence operations and a transition of power to a president deeply compromised by his dealings with China, the regime in Beijing…