When General Secretary Xi Jinping was in San Francisco last fall, he said the United States and China “should not erect barriers” between them. He can keep his word by destroying the Great Firewall of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The Great Firewall is a dystopian censorship regime designed to promote near-total social control over the Chinese people. With an army of censors bolstered through synthetic intelligence and the help of cutting-edge technology, it monitors all data and speech in China, allowing the CCP to temporarily remove unapproved speech, while reporting violations to the police.
The Great Firewall prevents contact between Chinese citizens and the outside world. News no longer circulates in China, and other Chinese are not allowed to disseminate information. Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube are blocked. Behind the Great Firewall, the CCP traps the Chinese people in a parallel event where they are fed a steady stream of propaganda tightly controlled by Xi’s authoritarian regime.
The PCC has reshaped the Internet, conceived as a tool of freedom, to make it the ultimate matrix tool. And as it has become more powerful, the Party has only expanded its ambition for global dominance: physical, economic, political, cultural, and intellectual. In fact, despite historical spending on a large army buildup, the CCP still spends more on internal security than on its military.
But the CCP’s quest for control is not limited to China’s borders. The CCP is exporting its generation of surveillance overseas, thanks to state-backed champions such as Huawei, Hikvision, and ZTE. It has found many buyers.
From the tyrannical regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela to the ayatollahs of Iran, the CCP exports its evil technologies to aid authoritarian governments on the Internet and oppress their populations. This not only undermines human rights on a global scale, but by creating a network of pro-CCP governments that increasingly owe their control of force to the CCP, it also threatens the national security of the United States.
Over the past year and a half, the CCP Special Committee has worked tirelessly to defend the Chinese people’s right to freely express themselves. We held hearings in which Chinese dissidents and scholars described the violent threats they faced here in the United States. , and we loudly called for an end to their oppression. We have tried to break down the barriers between the Chinese and American people that Xi says he cares so much about, but the Great Firewall stands in the way.
Tomorrow, the Select Committee will once again protect the rights of the Chinese people. We will hold a hearing on the Great Wall of Fire and the tactics by which we can expose to the Chinese people the “irresistible force of unarmed truth. “a word first used by Russian writer Boris Pasternak and repeated by former President Ronald Reagan in 1988 when his dream for the people was trapped in the Iron Curtain.
The CCP fears this force and spends tens of billions of dollars on global propaganda and censorship. We deserve to let go of it and give the other Chinese unlimited access to the truth. This means countering Chinese censorship with fair data and fighting the CCP’s export of surveillance generation around the world. This also means ensuring transparency at the national level. Whether in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, or on school campuses, CCP censorship has no standing in the United States.
What the CCP fears most is that the Chinese people will realize the truth (the truth about the Uyghurs, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, COVID-19, the Chinese economy, corruption) and, worst of all, the truth about the PCC itself. So that? For one reason and one reason only: they know that their government is lying when it says that only the Party can speak for the rest of the Chinese people.
To fulfill his San Francisco promises, Xi sticks to Reagan’s recommendation to another general secretary and tears down his firewall. As Reagan observed in Berlin: “This wall is going to fall. For faith cannot resist; He cannot resist the truth. The wall cannot resist freedom. “
What was true for concrete walls and barbed ropes will be true for coded walls. I invite you to sign up for the Select Committee to talk about how we can repeat Reagan’s good fortune and ensure that freedom once again prevails.
John Moolenaar is the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party’s Select Committee.
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