国家安全事务委员会（National Security Council）白宫（The White House）华盛顿哥伦比亚特区（Washington, D.C.）2020年6月26日
亚利桑那州商业局（Arizona Commerce Authority）凤凰城，亚利桑那州（Phoenix, Arizona）2020年6月24日
中国共产党构成的挑战，以及中国共产党的兴起及其对美国和我们的盟国造成的威胁，是我们目前面临的至关重要的问题。
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数十年来，美国各政党、工商界 、学术界、媒体等方面的普遍看法认为，促进中国的自由化只是时间问题，首先是经济领域，然后是政治领域。按照这种思维，我们向中国进一步开放我们的市场，我们在中国投入更多的资本，为中华人民共和国的官员、科学家、工程师，甚至军事官员提供更多的训练，中国就能变得像我们一样。
我们根据这个前提欢迎中国在2001年加入世界贸易组织（World Trade Organization），提供了大量的让步和贸易优惠待遇。我们淡化中国严重侵犯人权的行为，其中包括天安门广场事件。我们对中国广泛的技术盗窃行为睁一只眼闭一只眼，使美国经济各部门整体受到重创。随着中国日益富裕和强盛，我们相信中国共产党会实现自由化，可以满足本国人民日益强烈的民主渴望。这曾经是美国大胆和典型的设想。这种设想出自于我们天生的乐观主义，也来自于我们战胜苏联共产主义的经验。遗憾的是，这原来是很幼稚的想法。我们错得实在很离谱。这种错误的估计已成为上世纪30年代以来美国对外政策最大的败笔。
那么，我们为什么会犯这样的错误？我们为什么不能看清中国共产党的本质？答案很简单，是因为我们没有注意中国共产党的意识形态。我们不注意听中国共产党领导人的言论，不注意看他们在重要文件中所写的内容，我们视而不见，听而不闻。我们只相信我们希望相信的方面，认为这些党员只是名义上的共产主义者。
现在，我们需要明确指出，中国共产党是一个马克思主义、列宁主义组织。该党总书记习近平视自己为约瑟夫·斯大林的继承人。实际上，正如前记者和澳大利亚政府官员約翰•加諾特(John Garnaut)所指出的，中国共产党是最后一个从未脱离过斯大林的共产主义执政党，只有北韩属于部分例外。然而，斯大林采取残暴的独裁统治和骇人听闻的政策，通过灾害、强制集体化、处决行动和劳改营，杀害了约2,000万俄罗斯和其他方面的人员。
根据列宁、斯大林、毛的解释，共产主义属于极权的意识形态。在共产主义统治下，个人仅仅是实现集体化民族国家目标的一个工具，可以很容易地为民族国家的目标牺牲自己。
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中国共产党要求全面控制人民的生活。这意味着经济控制，意味着政治控制，意味着人身控制，可能更重要的是，意味着思想控制。加諾特指出，按照经典的中国治国之道，掌握和维持对江山的控制有两个工具。首先是武，指武器和暴力。其次是文，指语言和文化。中国领导人历来相信，权力来自于对有形战场的控制，也来自于对文化领域的控制。加诺特写道，“对列宁、斯大林、毛和现在的习来说，语言不是讲道理和劝说的工具，而是子弹。语言是为了明确、孤立和摧毁对手。”
对于中国共产党来说，宣传发挥了核心的作用。北京公开宣布要控制政治思想并大张旗鼓地推行之。1989年，该党开始围绕意识形态安全问题进行整顿。此后，中国共产党领导人一再强调这一点。前几年，该党在2013年4月发布一项关于当前意识形态领域情况的通报，提出绝对不允许有任何机会和渠道散布不正确的思想或观点。
因此在中国国内，这种方式意味着强制性的共产主义意识形态学习班，以及必须下载并使用讲授所谓习近平思想的智能手机应用。这意味着完全控制所有国家媒体。从外国报纸到推特（Twitter）、脸书（Facebook）和WhatsApp等外部信息来源都遭到禁止。所有在中国国内生成的内容都受到审查。这意味着监禁从公民博主到新闻记者、律师、活动人士和宗教信徒等每一个表达任何违反该党立场的观点的人。而且事实是，就在最近，从今年1月1日到4月4日，就有近500人仅仅因为公开讲出武汉冠状病毒和它对该党的影响以及该党掩盖这种疾病的行为而受到犯罪指控。
中国共产党重新解释包括《圣经》（Bible）在内的宗教文本，以支持共产党的意识形态。它将数以百万计的维吾尔族穆斯林及其他少数群体关押在再教育营中，强迫他们在那里接受政治灌输和强制劳动，而他们的子女则被送进该党管理的孤儿院中。这个过程彻底抹杀了家庭、宗教、文化、语言以及身陷这些再教育营中的人们的传统。在中国共产党的统治下，信息受到严格管制，表达时时受到监控，以便让政府进行打压或打造。
而美国人应当感到关切。我们不仅应当为中国人民感到关切，而且应当为我们自己感到关切，因为习近平对意识形态管控的野心不仅限于其本国人民。中国共产党宣称的目标是建立一个人类命运共同体，并任由中国共产党来重塑整个世界。在中国边境之外管控思想的努力已在进行之中。
近10年来，该党已投入数十亿美元用于海外宣传行动并取得极大效果。中国共产党已着手铲除全世界不友好的中文媒体机构，而且已接近完成。在美国的几乎每一家中文新闻机构不是由该党所有，就是同该党密切合作，而且它还在渗入英文媒体。在全美各城市有十多个广播电台，美国人在收听调频广播时会听到藏而不露的亲北京的宣传。
最近，中国的宣传让很多美国人以为冠状病毒是一名美国军人带到武汉的，而不是武汉将病毒传播到了世界其他地区，这完全是中国共产党捏造的，以致这名军人和她的家人需要贴身保安来保护他们免遭死亡威胁，这种情况发生在马里兰（Maryland）。在抖音（TikTok）这个中国所有的拥有超过4,000万美国用户的社交媒体平台上，可能有很多是你们的子女和年轻的同事，批评中国共产党以及北京的各项政策的账号经常被删除或查封。
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北京动用其财力和市场份额来迫使好莱坞（Hollywood）进行自我审查，从物质上促使导演、演员和制作人避开可能无法通过中国的国家审查机构的题材。
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中国共产党也在谋求利用个体美国人。它在收集你最隐私的数据：你的言论，你的行动，你的购物，你的行踪，你的健康记录，你的社交媒体发贴，你的短信，并且勾画出你的朋友、家人和熟人关系网。中国共产党达到这一目标的部分做法是补贴硬件、软件、电讯通信甚至基因公司。因此，像华为和中兴这样的公司可以在价格上同对手销价，以亏损的方式在全球安装他们的设备。它实际连带造成美国电讯硬件制造商倒闭，也使诺基亚公司（Nokia）和爱立信公司（Ericsson）处境非常艰难。
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那么中国共产党将如何利用这些数据？与中国境内的方式一样，即对个人进行攻击、奉承、劝诱、影响、胁迫，甚至讹诈，让他们做或者说符合共产党需要的事。这种微观定向是令任何广告商的天大梦想所不及的。与广告商不同的是，中国不会受政府规章阻止。中国共产党要知道你的一切，就像它要知道几乎所有生活在中国境内的人的一切一样。
除了进行宣传和施加影响的运作外，中国共产党还利用贸易强迫按照它的旨意行事。
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共产党利用中国在联合国人权理事会（UN Human Rights Council）的成员地位，不让对其在新疆和香港的侵权行为提出批评。中国共产党将影响伸向国际机构的首脑，他们本身并不是中国官员。
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……。我们正在采取果断行动，全面抵制。首先，特朗普总统不让某些听命于中国共产党情报和安全部门的公司，例如中国电信业巨头华为，接触我们的——我们的个人和隐私数据。本政府对向华为输出半导体技术实施了限制。
第二，国务院将9个中国国家控制的宣传媒体定性为外国使团。这些机构是中国共产党的喉舌，这一定性使这些所谓的媒体机构受制于有关要求和受到签证限制。第三，特朗普总统对共同参与中国对维吾尔族和其他少数民族的压制、大规模任意拘押和高科技监视的中国21个政府实体和16家中国公司实行出口限制，我们已经阻止共同参与这些践踏行为的官员进入美国。
本届政府还制止由虽然知道但却仍然使用维吾尔族强劳的中国公司生产的产品非法进入美国。第四，特朗普总统将美国撤出人权理事会，抗议它受中国影响。
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第五，特朗普总统限制中国人民解放军利用学生签证将其军官和雇员送到我国高等院校窃取美国技术、知识产权和信息。第六，总统采取行动，停止美国联邦政府雇员退休基金投资于中华人民共和国的公司，包括中国军方合同公司和生产用于镇压少数民族的监控设备的制造商。
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美国被动和天真对待中华人民共和国的时代结束了。我们将忠实我们的原则，尤其是言论自由，这与中国共产党所维护的马克思主义-列宁主义的意识形态形成鲜明对比。

Well, thank you Governor.  That was an extraordinarily kind introduction and for thinking of Kayla and her parents. We had them at the State of the Union. That was a very special occasion for the President and for all of us as Americans. What happened to Kayla should never happen to anyone, especially Americans. Thank you for remembering her today and for the support you have given her family.  It is great to be here in Phoenix. Congratulations on the TSMC factory that is coming to Arizona.  I can tell you there are 49 other governors that are a little jealous of Governor Ducey at this point. What a tremendous accomplishment for your administration and it’s great for our national security to bring our supply chain home, especially when we are dealing with critical technology, computer chips, dual-use chips, that are not only important to our civilian world—the phones we use, the computers we use, the dishwashers, the refrigerators we use—but also to our military.  You have some great aerospace companies who are doing work in Arizona that are going to benefit from having their suppliers closer to home. Congratulations to the people of Arizona.
It is wonderful to be here at the Arizona Commerce Authority. Congratulations to you as well for the excellent support you gave the governor and his administration in not only bringing the Taiwanese here but also many other manufacturing companies returning to America are coming to Arizona—great weather, sunshine.  It is wonderful again to be back here on the west coast.  Other folks around the world are coming to Arizona and the American West to see there is a whole other part to this country outside of Washington, D.C. and New York. As manufacturing returns to this country, Arizona will be at the top of their list. So congratulations, Governor.
I bring you greetings from the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. I know he was here yesterday.  It is privilege to follow in his wake.  I think there is some other good news; you will be having the Vice President of the United States Mike Pence, my close friend, whose office is down the hall, will be here next week.
I appreciate the kind invitation to come discuss an issue of great importance to American national security with you, Governor and your colleagues here in Arizona:—the challenge the Chinese Communist Party poses to the United States and our allies is of critical importance to us right now. My remarks are the first of several speeches senior Administration officials will give on this matter over the next few weeks. You will soon hear from Secretary of State Pompeo, Attorney General Barr, and FBI Director Chris Wray on the subject.
America, under President Trump’s leadership, has finally awoken to the threat the Chinese Communist Party’s actions and the threat they pose to our very way of life. For decades, conventional wisdom in both U.S. political parties, the business community, academia, and media, has held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and, then, politically. The more we opened our markets to China, the thinking went, the more we invested capital in China, the more we trained PRC bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and even military officers, the more China would become like us.
It was under this premise that we welcomed China into the World Trade Organization in 2001 with vast concessions and trade privileges. We downplayed China’s gross human rights abuses, including Tiananmen Square. We turned a blind eye to China’s widespread technology theft that eviscerated entire sectors of the American economy.
As China grew richer and stronger, we believed, the Chinese Communist Party would liberalize to meet the rising democratic aspirations of its people.  This was a bold, quintessentially American idea, born of our innate optimism and by the experience of our triumph over Soviet Communism.  Unfortunately, it turned out to be very naïve.
We could not have been more wrong—and this miscalculation is the greatest failure of American foreign policy since the 1930s. How did we make such a mistake? How did we fail to understand the nature of the Chinese Communist Party?
The answer is simple: because we did not pay heed to the CCP’s ideology. Instead of listening to what CCP leaders were saying and reading what they wrote in their key documents, we closed our ears and our eyes. We believed what we wanted to believe—that the Party members were communist in name only.
Let us be clear, the Chinese Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist organization. The Party General Secretary Xi Jinping sees himself as Josef Stalin’s successor. In fact, as the journalist and former Australian government official John Garnaut has noted, the Chinese Communist Party is the last “ruling communist party that never split with Stalin, with the partial exception of North Korea.”[1] Yes, Stalin – the man whose brutal dictatorship and disastrous policies killed roughly 20 million Russians and others through famine, forced collectivization, executions, and labor camps. As interpreted and practiced by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, communism is a totalitarian ideology.
Under communism, individuals are merely a means to be used toward the achievement of the ends of the collective nation state. Thus, individuals can be easily sacrificed for the nation state’s goals.  Individuals do not have inherent value under Marxism-Leninism. They exist to serve the state; the state does not exist to serve them.
These ideas sound remote and outdated to us. They are, after all, old ideas—they were born a century and a half ago in Europe. They were implemented a century ago by Russia, and then discarded 30 years ago as the most costly failed political experiment in history. But in China, these ideas remain as fundamental to the Chinese Communist Party as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights do to us as Americans.
The Chinese Communist Party seeks total control over the people’s lives. This means economic control, it means political control, it means physical control, and, perhaps most importantly, it means thought control.
“In Classical Chinese statecraft,” Garnaut has noted, “there are two tools for gaining and maintaining control over ‘the mountains and the rivers’: the first is wu (武), weapons and violence, and the second is wen (文), language and culture. Chinese leaders have always believed that power derives from controlling both the physical battlefield and the cultural domain.”[2] “For Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Xi,” Garnaut writes, “words are not vehicles of reason and persuasion. They are bullets. Words are for defining, isolating, and destroying opponents.”[3]
Propaganda plays a central political role for the CCP. Beijing’s efforts to dominate political thought are stated openly and pursued aggressively. In 1989, the party began organizing itself around ‘ideological security,’ a term repeated frequently since then by CCP leaders. More recently, in April 2013, the Party issued a policy on what they call the “current state of ideology.”[4] It held that there should be, “absolutely no opportunity or outlets for incorrect thinking or viewpoints to spread.”[5]>
So within China, this approach means mandatory study sessions on Communist ideology and the required download and use of smartphone apps that teach so-called “Xi Jinping Thought.” It means complete control of all state media. Outside sources of information are banned—from foreign newspapers to Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp. All content generated within China is censored. It means jailing everyone from citizen bloggers, reporters, and lawyers to activists and religious believers for expressing any views contrary to the Party line.
And indeed, just recently, between January 1 and April 4 of this year, nearly 500 individuals were charged with crimes just for speaking out about the Wuhan coronavirus, its effects upon the Party, and the Party’s cover-up of the disease.[6]
The Chinese Communist Party reinterprets religious texts, including the Bible, to support communist party ideology. It locks up millions of Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in reeducation camps where they are subjected to political indoctrination and forced labor, while their children are raised in Party-run orphanages. This process annihilates family, religion, culture, language, and heritage of the people who are caught up in these camps. Under the Chinese Communist Party, information is tightly controlled and expression is constantly surveilled, so that it can be quashed or shaped by the state.
Americans should be concerned. We should not be concerned only for the Chinese people but for ourselves. Xi Jinping’s ambitions for ideological control are not limited to his own people. The CCP’s stated goal is to create a “Community of Common Destiny for Mankind,” and to remake the world according to the CCP. The effort to control thought beyond the borders of China is well under way.
Over the past decade, the Party has invested billions of dollars into overseas propaganda operations to great effect.[7] The CCP has moved to eliminate ‘unfriendly’ Chinese language media outlets worldwide, and is close to succeeding. Nearly every Chinese language news outlet in the U.S. is either owned by, or works closely with the Party—and it is making inroads into English language media as well. There are more than a dozen radio stations in cities across the country where Americans hear subtle pro-Beijing propaganda on their FM radio.
Recently, Chinese propaganda persuaded so many Americans that a U.S. solider had brought the coronavirus to Wuhan—as opposed to Wuhan sending the virus to the rest of the world (a complete fabrication by the CCP) that this soldier and her family needed a personal security detail to protect them from death threats. This situation occurred in Maryland.
On TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform with over 40 million American users—probably a lot of your kids and younger colleagues– accounts criticizing CCP policies are routinely removed or deleted.
Last week, Twitter announced the suspension of more than 23,000 CCP linked accounts for spreading propaganda on Hong Kong and COVID-19. This latest suspension was in addition to last August’s removal of more than 150,000 CCP linked accounts that were used to spread anti-American disinformation and generate the illusion of popular support for Beijing’s policies in the United States.  These are just the accounts Twitter caught. How many are still out there undetected?
In March, the CCP expelled American journalists working for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, almost fully eliminating independent reporting from within China on the Wuhan virus.
In addition to influencing what information American citizens receive regarding China, the CCP is increasingly using its leverage to police American speech. When the University of California at San Diego hosted the Dalai Lama as a commencement speaker in 2017, Beijing banned Chinese students from visiting UCSD on government funds.
When the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted his support for the peaceful Hong Kong protesters, the CCP announced its team’s games would not be shown on Chinese TV and used its economic power to pressure others in basketball, including star players, to criticize the tweet on behalf of Beijing.
Under pressure from the CCP, Marriott, and American, Delta, and United Airlines all removed references to Taiwan from their corporate websites. Mercedes Benz even apologized for posting an inspirational quote from the Dalai Lama on social media.
Beijing has used its financial might and market access to pressure Hollywood into self-censorship, incentivizing directors and producers to avoid topics that might not make it past the country’s censors in China. For example, the Japanese and Taiwanese flags were dropped from Tom Cruise’s flight jacket in the upcoming Top Gun sequel “Maverick.” MGM digitally changed the identities, post-production, of the invading military from China to North Korea in the “Red Dawn” remake.
The CCP is seeking leverage over individual Americans as well. The Party is collecting your most intimate data—your words, your actions, your purchases, your whereabouts, your health records, your social media posts, your texts, and mapping your network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
The CCP accomplishes this goal, in part, by subsidizing hardware, software, telecommunications, and even genetics companies. As a result, corporations such as Huawei and ZTE undercut competitors on price and install their equipment around the globe at a loss. This has the side effect of putting out of business American manufacturers of telecom hardware and has made it very difficult for Nokia and Ericsson.  Why do they do it? Because it is not telecom hardware or software profits the CCP are after, it is your data.  They use “backdoors” built into the products to obtain that data.
When the Chinese Communist Party cannot buy your data, it steals it. In 2014, the CCP hacked Anthem insurance, collecting sensitive information on 80 million Americans. In 2015, the CCP hacked the Office of Personnel Management, which holds security clearance information, acquiring sensitive data on 20 million Americans who work for the federal government. In 2017, it hacked Equifax, obtaining the names, birthdates, social security numbers, and credit scores of 145 million Americans.
In 2019, the CCP hacked Marriot, gathering information on 383 million guests, including their passport numbers.  And, in 2016, a Chinese company even bought the dating app Grindr to harvest its data, including the HIV status of users, before the U.S. government forced a divestiture on national security grounds.  These are just a few of the instances we know about.
How will the Chinese Communist Party use this data? In the same way it uses data within China’s borders: to target, to flatter, to cajole, to influence, to coerce, and to even blackmail individuals to say and do things that serve the Party’s interests. This is ‘micro targeting’ beyond an advertiser’s wildest dreams. China, unlike advertisers, will not be stopped by government regulations. The Chinese Communist Party simply wants to know everything about you—just as it likes to know almost everything about every individual living in China.
In addition to propaganda and influence operations, the Chinese Communist Party  uses trade to coerce compliance with its dictates. When Australia called for an independent investigation of the coronavirus’ origins and spread, the Chinese Communist Party threatened to stop buying Australian agricultural products and to prevent Chinese students and tourists from traveling to Australia. When Australia refused to relent, Beijing put these threats into force, imposing an 80% tariff on Australian barley exports.
International organizations are also part of China’s plan. China has sought leadership positions within many global bodies. China now heads four out of fifteen UN specialized agencies, more than the U.S., UK, France, and Russia, the other members of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, combined. The PRC uses these leaders to force the international bodies to parrot Beijing’s talking points and to install Chinese telecommunications equipment in their facilities.
For example, since Zhao Houlin of the International Telecommunications Union took his post he began to aggressively promote Huawei sales. Secretary-General Fang Liu of the International Civil Aviation Organization has blocked Taiwan’s participation in General Assembly meetings and covered up a Chinese hack of the organization. The Party has used China’s membership on the UN Human Rights Council to prevent criticism of its abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
The CCP’s reach extends to heads of international organizations who are not themselves Chinese officials.  Under Beijing’s thumb, and at an unacceptable cost to human life, Director-General Tedros of the World Health Organization dutifully used Chinese talking points on the Wuhan virus. As late as mid-January, he claimed there was no human-to-human transmission of the disease. He opposed international travel restrictions. At the same time, Tedros praised China’s own domestic travel restrictions on Wuhan residents. In other words, they could travel overseas, but they could not travel and potentially take the virus to Beijing or Shanghai. These CCP tactics in international organizations, as we have seen with the coronavirus, are a major cause of concern not just for the United States, but to the world.
The good news is that under President Trump’s leadership, we know what the CCP is doing, we are calling it out, and we are taking decisive action to counter it across the board.[8]
First, President Trump prevented certain companies that answer to the CCP’s intelligence and security apparatus—such as Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei—from accessing our personal and private data.[9] The Administration also imposed restrictions on U.S. semiconductor technology from going to Huawei.[10]
Second, the State Department designated the U.S. operations of 9 Chinese state-controlled propaganda outlets as foreign missions.[11] These organizations are the mouthpieces of the Chinese Communist Party. This designation places reporting requirements and visa restrictions on these so-called media outlets.
Third, President Trump imposed export restrictions on 21 Chinese government entities and 16 Chinese companies complicit in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs and other minorities, and we have blocked officials complicit in these abuses from travelling to the United States.[12] The Administration has also stopped the illegal import of goods produced by Chinese companies known to use Uyghur forced labor.[13]
Fourth, President Trump left the United Nations Human Rights Council to protest its cooptation by China.[14] He has terminated the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization, because its response to the pandemic showed that it is beholden to China.[15] Instead of funding the corrupt WHO in Geneva with over $400 million per year, the United States and its generous taxpayers will send that money directly to where it is needed most—frontline healthcare workers serving in developing countries around the world.
Fifth, President Trump limited the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to use student visa programs to place its officers and employees in our colleges and universities to steal U.S. technology, intellectual property, and information.[16]
Sixth, the President moved to halt the investment of U.S. federal employee retirement funds into PRC companies, including Chinese military contractors and manufacturers of surveillance equipment used to oppress religious minorities.[17] He is examining the opaque accounting practices of Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges.[18]
This week, the Defense Department is submitting to Congress a list of People’s Liberation Army-linked companies with operations in the United States so that the American people are fully informed about exactly with whom they are doing business.
Now, these steps are just the start as America corrects 40 years of a one-sided, unfair relationship with China that has severely affected our nation’s economic and, recently, political well-being. Just like the tariffs that were imposed by the President on unfair trade practices early in his Administration, there is more to come.
President Trump understands that lasting peace comes through strength. We are the strongest nation on earth, and we will not bend to the CCP. As the foregoing actions demonstrate, the Trump Administration is countering CCP malign activity. The Trump Administration will speak out and reveal what the Chinese Communist Party believes, and what it is planning—not just for China and Hong Kong and Taiwan, but for the world.
Together with our allies and partners, we will resist the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to manipulate our people and our governments, damage our economies, and undermine our sovereignty. The days of American passivity and naivety regarding the People’s Republic of China are over.
We will stay true to our principles—especially freedom of speech—which stand in stark contrast to the Marxist-Leninist ideology embraced by the CCP. Under President Trump’s leadership, we will encourage diversity of thought, resist efforts to police speech or encourage self-censorship, protect Americans’ personal data, and above all, continue to proclaim that all women and men are entitled by right of God to liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness.
As I close, let me be clear – we have deep respect and admiration for the Chinese people. The United States has a long history of friendship with the Chinese nation. But the Chinese Communist Party does not equal China or her people.
To the Chinese Communist Party, I say, as the recent Phase One trade deal has shown, it is possible for our governments to have a productive relationship. We want good relationships with China, but we do not want relations on the terms currently on offer from Beijing.
As Americans, I am certain that we will rise to successfully meet the challenge presented by the Chinese Communist Party, just as we have responded to all the great crises over our history. President Trump is leading the way. And like President Trump, I firmly believe that our best days as a country remain ahead of us.
Again, thank you for joining me here today. It is a privilege to be here in Phoenix, Arizona.  May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America.
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[1] John Garnaut, “Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China,” January 16, 2019,  https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
[2] John Garnaut, “Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China,” January 16, 2019, https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
[3] John Garnaut, “Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China,” January 16, 2019, https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
[4] “Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation,” November 8, 2013, https://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation
[5] “Document 9: A ChinaFile Translation,” November 8, 2013, https://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation
[6] Bradford Betz, “China has arrested hundreds for speaking out about coronavirus, reports show,” May 13, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-arrested-hundreds-speaking-out-coronavirus/
[7] Hoover Institution, 2018, “Chinese Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance,” https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/chineseinfluence_americaninterests_fullreport_web.pdf
[8] White House, “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China,” May 20, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/U.S.-Strategic-Approach-to-The-Peoples-Republic-of-China-Report-5.20.20.pdf
[9] White House, “Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain,” May 15, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-securing-information-communications-technology-services-supply-chain/ and White House, “Executive Order on Establishing the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector,” April 4, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-establishing-committee-assessment-foreign-participation-united-states-telecommunications-services-sector/
[10] Department of Commerce, “Commerce Addresses Huawei’s Efforts to Undermine Entity List, Restricts Products Designed and Produced with U.S. Technologies,” May 15, 2020, https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/commerce-addresses-huaweis-efforts-undermine-entity-list-restricts
[11] Department of State, “Designation of Additional Chinese Media Entities as Foreign Missions,” June 22, 2020, https://www.state.gov/designation-of-additional-chinese-media-entities-as-foreign-missions/
[12] White House, “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China,” May 20, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/U.S.-Strategic-Approach-to-The-Peoples-Republic-of-China-Report-5.20.20.pdf; also see Department of Commerce, “Commerce Department to Add Nine Chinese Entities Related to Human Rights Abuses in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region to the Entity List,” May 22, 2020, https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/05/commerce-department-add-nine-chinese-entities-related-human-rights
[13] U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, “CBP Issues Detention Order on Hair Products Manufactured with Force Labor in China,” May 1, 2020, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-detention-order-hair-products-manufactured-forced-labor; also see June 17, 2020, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issues-detention-order-hair-products-manufactured-forced-labor-0 and October 1, 2019,
[14] White House, “President Donald J. Trump is Standing Up for Human Rights at the U.N.,” June 21, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-standing-human-rights-u-n/
[15] White House, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” May 30, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-actions-china/
[16] White House, “Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Certain Students and Researchers from the People’s Republic of China,” May 29, 2020,  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspension-entry-nonimmigrants-certain-students-researchers-peoples-republic-china/
[17] Blake Burman, “Trump orders federal retirement money invested in Chinese equities to be pulled,” May 11, 2020, https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-orders-federal-retirement-money-invested-in-chinese-equities-to-be-pulled<
[18] White House, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” May 30, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-actions-china/