During the Cold War, the U.S. government, big businesses, and ordinary American citizens did everything they could to prevent Soviet infiltration and espionage. To be fair, sometimes this resulted in unfounded accusations—e.g., the McCarthy hearings.
However, for the most part, the sense of heightened alert and suspicion of the Soviet communist menace was well founded.
Today, the United States faces a new communist threat, which is arguably much more dangerous than that posed by the Soviet Union or its satellite states. It goes by the name of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and believe it or not, this new, and potentially more ominous, enemy has already put down deep roots within the United States.
Consider:
The CCP has heavily infiltrated the U.S. education system, from higher education to K–12 classrooms.
Since 2004, the CCP has funded more than 100 “Confucius Institutes” on prominent U.S. college campuses. According to the U.S. Department of State, Confucius Institutes “push out skewed Chinese language and cultural training for U.S. students as part of Beijing’s multifaceted propaganda efforts.” That’s why the State Department recently labeled them “a foreign mission of the People’s Republic of China.”
Perhaps even more disconcerting, the CCP also operates “Confucius Classrooms” in scores of U.S. K–12 schools. As the State Department notes, as of 2020, “there are around 500 Confucius Classrooms based on K–12 campuses.”
The CCP has also infiltrated social media, primarily via the hugely popular app TikTok. Like all companies in China, ByteDance—the owner of TikTok—is subservient to the CCP and must do its bidding. In 2020, the Department of Justice declared TikTok a “mouthpiece” for the CCP and revealed that its CEO was “committed to promoting” the CCP’s agenda.
Aside from indoctrinating our youth in our public schools and hooking vast swaths of the U.S. population on an app that feeds them nonstop stupid videos (which is entirely different from the Chinese version of TikTok), the CCP has also gained a foothold in the United States by purchasing enormous amounts of farmland, some of which happens to be located near sensitive military installations.
By Chris Talgo
