Members-onlyHow Beijing's New Law Seeks to Crush Dissent Worldwide | Guermantes Lailari

China’s new ethnic unity law has taken effect, and it’s going to be used to justify and expand transnational repression overseas in combination with existing laws on promoting “separatism,” argues Guermantes Lailari, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and longtime China researcher.

“In this new ethnic law, they encourage people to report on other Chinese who are not promoting ‘unity.’” Lailari says.

“So if you're a Chinese person in the United States promoting Taiwan, they can prosecute you in absentia, and the court will have a ruling. And they can put out a red notice or Interpol notice on that person who's overseas, and if that person ever travels to a country that China has bilateral extradition laws to, that person can be detained and transferred to China,” Lailari argues.

Lailari moved to Taiwan a few years ago to study the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) up close. "This place,” he says, “is being attacked every day, whether it's cyber, cognitive warfare, media warfare, economic warfare, diplomatic warfare."

In our interview he argues that the CCP poses the most serious long-term threat to Western civilization—not just militarily, but through a combination of legal, economic, psychological, and intelligence operations.

In this episode, we dive into why the Chinese dictator is fixated on taking Taiwan, and what the global fallout of such a takeover would look like.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.