Compromised By Communists

Secretary Wormuth’s comments about communist China trying to “erode American support” for any conflict against China were particularly interesting. 

As I noted yesterday, Beijing has many “allies” in the United States because it has been working for decades to exploit our openness and freedoms in order to compromise key individuals.

We just got one high-profile example of how communist China compromises people. 

Over the weekend, Elon Musk tweeted his belief that COVID-19 came out of the Wuhan lab. The Global Times (an official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party) immediately fired back, posting on social media, “Elon Musk, are you breaking the pot of China?”

That might seem like an odd phrase to most Americans, but to the Chinese it’s an idiom similar to “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” In other words, Musk has been officially warned by the Chinese Communist Party that his considerable business interests in China are now at risk.

This is nothing unusual. It’s exactly what every American CEO who invests in China is subjected to on a regular basis. You cannot do business in China without dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. 

The Chinese have bragged about their influence over “the people at the top of America’s core inner circle.” 

Beijing got U.S. social media “influencers” to parrot communist propaganda during the latest Olympic Games. 

Knowing that liberals are soft on socialism, the communist Chinese have infiltrated our college campuses for decades with Confucius Centers. Republicans were susceptible on free trade, and multinational corporations wanted bigger profits. 

They launched elaborate influence operations compromising politicians from mayors to congressmen, and even the president’s family.

Some Christian leaders have been weak on this issue, and I really don’t know why, given communist China’s persecution of Christians.

When Dr. James Dobson and I fought efforts to give communist China special trade status, we were attacked by the “good capitalists” at the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Dr. Dobson and I – not communist China – were the problem. A prominent pastor wrote a guest editorial in the Wall Street Journal attacking me by name. 

Here’s the bottom line: Isolating Russia in its conflict with Ukraine was easy because Russia didn’t have many allies here in America. But isolating China will be far more difficult because far too many American capitalists have been compromised by the Chinese communists.