Committee on the Present Danger: China
The Mission of the Committee
The mission of the Committee on the Present Danger: China is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the Committee on Present Danger: China.- RELEASE | The C.C.P. Thinks It Can Win – and is Preparing to Wage – Nuclear War
on July 10, 2026WASHINGTON, D.C.— On July 6th, Communist China fired for the first time a long-range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) into international waters. The missile’s 7,300-kilometer trajectory reportedly sent a simulated warhead across part of the Philippines archipelago, landing ironically in the so-called “South Pacific Nuclear Free […]
- Webinar | The C.C.P. Thinks It Can Win – and is Preparing to Wage – Nuclear War
on July 10, 2026This CPDC webinar examines China’s actual nuclear capabilities and true intentions; the threat jointly posed by the Chinese and Russian thermonuclear programs; and what the United States must do now to shore up deterrence of both of those enemies.
- RELEASE | Providing the Rope: Americans Enabling the CCP Threaton June 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.— On June 8, the Pentagon beefed up its 1260H list of “Chinese military companies operating in the United States” by adding 17 new parent-level companies and 48 subsidiaries of previously listed ones. The question occurs: Why are any such companies allowed to do business here?
- Webinar | Providing the Rope: Americans Enabling the CCP Threat
on June 26, 2026On June 8, the Pentagon beefed up its 1260H list of “Chinese military companies operating in the United States” by adding 17 new parent-level companies and 48 subsidiaries of previously listed ones. The question occurs: Why are any such companies allowed to do business here?
- RELEASE | 37 Years after Tiananmen: What Hath Embracing the CCP Wrought?on June 5, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Thirty-seven years ago yesterday, the Chinese Communist Party violently crushed freedom demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and other cities across China. Grave insult was added to the murderous injury thus inflicted when the U.S. government made clear that such repression would not be allowed to interfere with […]
- Webinar | 37 Years after Tiananmen: What Embracing the CCP Hath Wrought
on June 4, 202637 Years after Tiananmen: What Embracing the CCP Hath Wrought
- Brian Kennedy: The Urgent Need To Secure American Elections
on June 4, 2026If there is a single idea that President Donald Trump holds with conviction, it is that the 2020 election was stolen. Millions of Americans agree with him. How it was stolen, and by whom, is still being investigated six years later. That is a problem, because another national election arrives this fall, and Americans deserve an answer as to […]
- RELEASE | Trump-Xi Summit Post-Mortem: A Net Assessmenton May 18, 2026
The Committee on the Present Danger: China is convening an urgent webinar today from 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET to address that fraught question with a number of the Committee’s most influential members and allies. Join us for an examination of what we know happened, what purportedly took place, what has been announced by one or the other of the parties […]
- Webinar | Trump-Xi Summit Post-Mortem: A Net Assessment
on May 18, 2026Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping’s lavish welcome for President Trump and much of what followed seemed designed to obscure a harsh reality: China’s ruling Communist Party is at war with the United States. No one in American public life has appreciated that reality more and for a longer time than Donald J. Trump.
- RELEASE | Trump’s Fraught Summit with Xi: Can “What Could Go Wrong” be Prevented?on May 8, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.— President Trump often praises Chinese dictator Xi Jinping with whom he is scheduled to meet next week in Beijing. What if the feeling isn’t mutual? After all, Xi not only has long waged “unrestricted warfare” against our country, but repeatedly undermined the Trump presidency.