Webinar | Good News or Bad News? Will the CCP’s Internal Crises Preclude or Precipitate a War

In Vietnam last week, President Biden opined that Xi Jinping’s economic troubles at home make a Chinese invasion of Taiwan less likely.

Set aside for the moment the question of whether Joe Biden actually has any insight on this matter and, if he does, whether he actually believes what he is saying. Or whether, alternatively, he is simply engaged in the sort of misdirection that one might expect from a man whom a retired top U.S. undercover operative and member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Charles “Sam” Faddis describes as a “controlled asset of the Chinese Communist Party.”

What matters is whether it is actually the case that real, growing and possibly irreversible economic, political and strategic problems at home would cause a thug like Xi to forego his long-planned acquisition of Taiwan, at least for the time being. Or does he believe – as have myriad other tyrants, both Communist and of other stripes – that war against some putative foreign enemy is a necessary measure to stave off public demands for change, possibly including the overthrow of his Communist regime?

This CPDC webinar explores the magnitude and implications of the CCP’s internal problems, the totalitarian practice of using aggression to relieve pressure on the leader’s hold on power and the degree to which Xi is in a position to exercise that option in the near future.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, co-author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”

Panelists:

- J.R. Nyquist, Author, “Origins of the Fourth World War : And the Coming Wars of Mass Destruction;” Essayist at JRNyquist.blog
– Topic: “Totalitarians’ Deus ex Machina: Resorting to War to Stave Off Regime Collapse – Xi’s Get Out of Jail Free Card”

- Bill Walton, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation; Host, The Bill Walton Show, CEO of a $6 billion NYSE-traded private investment firm for 14 years; headed all the economic agency action teams (e.g. Treasury, Commerce, USTR, SEC et al) for the 2016 Trump Transition
– Topic: “The CCP’s Economic Death-spiral: From “Uninvestible” to the Ash-heap of History?”

- Dr. Bradley Thayer, PhD, Director for China Policy, Center for Security Policy, author, “Understanding the China Threat”
– Topic: “The Illegitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party: The People of China Want It Gone – and Deserve our Help”

- 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: “The Military Option: Can Xi Exercise It Now?”