Members-onlyHow the CCP Turns America Against Itself | Tianliang Zhang

The values Americans hold dear—like freedom of speech, religious liberty, and democratic elections—are weaponized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), says Tianliang Zhang, an author, historian, and popular commentator on China affairs.

In this episode, he argues the CCP devised a masterplan to exploit those very freedoms and openness to undermine US interests called “America against America.”

The concept was developed by Wang Huning in 1989, chairman of China’s top political advisory body Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

“But how to implement that, that’s the unrestricted war,” says Zhang.

Unrestricted warfare is a CCP doctrine of leveraging everything as a tool of war, whether it be fentanyl, the media, or election integrity.

But how is this war waged in practice? The transnational repression of Falun Gong, a peaceful Buddhist meditation exercise, is one such example.

“CCP sees it as [the] number one threat in its history… so they use American media, they use the freedom of speech here, they use the justice system here to persecute Falun Gong.”

The goal, Zhang says, is to “eliminate all the independent thoughts” that do not conform to communist ideology.

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