Webinar | How a Shooting War with the CCP May Start

Perceived, Contemptible U.S. Weakness is Provocative

In recent days, Chinese military personnel have deliberately endangered American counterparts in international air and sea space. The near-collisions were not simply “unprofessional” or the result of a “failure to communicate.” Neither are they the sorts of behavior that can safely be ignored in the interest of promoting the false narrative that relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China are improving and will shortly be restored due to high-level diplomatic re-engagement.

The Chinese intercepts are deliberate provocations that eventually will get someone — and maybe a lot of us — killed.

These incidents reflect the Chinese Communist Party’s increasing ability and willingness to take risks in order to assert effective control over areas it claims as sovereign waters and territory.

They are also evidence of Beijing’s ever-less-concealed contempt for a U.S. military being “fundamentally transformed” by: the purging of skilled warriors; the promotion of leaders embracing Marxist nostrums designed to divide, weaken and demoralize those still serving; and a Commander-in-Chief rightly characterized as a “controlled asset” of the Chinese Communist Party.

That’s a prescription for American defeat in a shooting war Team Biden is inviting.

This CPDC webinar assesses: the CCPs increasing bellicosity; the factors contributing to it; the likelihood that, left unaddressed, the People’s Liberation Army provocations will intensify and result in miscalculation and possible casualties — perhaps creating a casus belli; and what the United States should be doing now to deter the foregoing.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China

Panelists:

- Richard Fisher, Senior Fellow for Asia, International Assessment and Strategy Center; and author, “China’s Military Modernization: Building for Global and Regional Reach”
— Topic: “Chinese Military Provocations are ‘No Accident, Comrade’”

- Captain James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet
— Topic: “The Calculations behind Xi’s Increasing Willingness to Take Risks”

- Colonel Grant Newsham, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.),U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Former Marine Attaché in Japan; former Foreign Service Officer; former East Asia-based corporate executive; author, “When China Attacks: A Warning to America;” Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
— Topic: “How Our Allies Perceive Xi’s Provocations and the U.S. Responses to Date”

- Colonel John Mills, U.S. Army (Ret.), Former Special Operator specializing in Psychological Warfare; former senior executive responsible for Cyber Policy in the Office of Secretary of Defense; author, “The Nation Will Follow: Firsthand Experiences Fighting the Deep State and the Action Plan for the American Citizen”
— Topic: “What We Must Do to Deter Further CCP Provocations”

- Colonel Rob Maness, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), former Commanding Officer of a bomber squadron; former Vice Commander of America’s largest Airborne Intelligence Wing; former Commander, Kirtland Air Force Base, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Deterrence Studies
— Topic: “Is a Shooting War with the CCP Inevitable and, If So, What Must We Do Now?”