Texas Leads the Nation in Defunding Our Chinese Communist Enemy
by Frank J. Gaffney
November 25, 2024 at 4:30 am
"I direct Texas investing entities that you are prohibited from making any new investments of state funds in China. To the extent you have any current investments in China, you are required to divest at the first available opportunity." — Texas Governor Greg Abbott, November 21, 2024.
[A]uthor and filmmaker Trevor Loudon.... persuasively argues for tactics successfully employed to break up and take down other criminal enterprises like the mafia – namely, an amnesty for participants who turn state's evidence against their erstwhile co-conspirators among what the Chinese call our "captured elites".... business leaders, journalists, academics, Hollywood mavens and politicians....
The Chinese Communist Party runs expansive influence operations in the United States – estimated to cost $16 billion per year – intended to subvert, otherwise manipulate and ultimately destroy our country. Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a number of executive orders aimed at blocking such insidious Chinese Communist actions in his state.
On February 8, 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo served notice on the nation's governors about the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party's deep penetration of our state and local governments. He observed:
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