FPI / October 30, 2024
By Richard Fisher
On Oct. 24 the Oversight and Accountability Committee of the United States House of Representatives, led by Chairman James Comer (R-KY), issued a report and agenda for combating the predations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States, recalling the Congressional leadership of the 1999 report of a House Select Committee led by former Congressman Christopher Cox (R-CA).
Partisan Divide: As seen during a June 26, 2024 House Oversight Committee hearing chaired by Congressmen Jame’s Comer (right), Committee Democrats led by Co-Chair Jamie Raskin chose partisan posturing over investigation of Chinese Communist Party threats to Americans. / Richard FisherThis report, “CCP Political Warfare: Federal Agencies Urgently Need A Government Wide Strategy,” is a ground-breaking 292 page, 1865 footnote report that defines the threat of CCP political warfare and then assesses in detail and even grades how 25 of the largest U.S. federal agencies are responding to threats from the CCP.
Chairman Comer is quoted in an Oct. 24 Committee press release saying, “Today’s report details how federal agencies have failed to understand, acknowledge, or develop a plan to combat CCP political warfare and Americans are left to fend for themselves. It is past time for federal agencies to take this threat seriously and fulfill their responsibilities to the American people. Our report offers several solutions federal agencies can implement now with existing resources to address the CCP threat and protect the American people.”
The report further explains:
“The CCP’s ‘main enemy’ is declared and public: the United States and, by extension, the American people. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), controlled by the CCP to the point of synonymity, is the greatest foreign threat to the United States’ security. The CCP’s tactics are an extraordinary and intentional danger to the American way of life, but the U.S. government and its constituent agencies, departments, and commissions under the Biden-Harris Administration have not engaged the CCP malefactor with urgency or candor.”
Some highlights of the Oversight Committee’s investigation of 25 U.S. Federal Agencies include:
• Department of Education: “…does not have an understanding of or strategy to protect American and Chinese students on U.S. campuses from CCP proxy group harassment and stifling of free speech through, for example, on-campus organizations such as Confucius Institutes and Chinese Students and Scholars Associations.”
• Department of the Treasury: “…wants China to continue buying U.S. Treasury bills, so it has been dangerously reticent to confront or even acknowledge the CCP’s economic warfare. In fact, Treasury has allowed the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative to financially cripple many of those countries that are pursuing a trading system isolated from American businesses.”
• Department of Agriculture: “…touts China as America’s number one customer; has no plan to secure the food supply from PRC; and does not adequately monitor the CCP’s strategic purchasing of U.S. farmland in close proximity to U.S. military bases.”
• Department of Justice: “…has insufficient expertise, initiative, and rigor to deter CCP unrestricted warfare. DOJ has succumbed to CCP influence operations by terminating the sole program focused on enforcing federal national security laws against the CCP, based on uncorroborated claims of racial bias. DOJ has lumped the CCP in with other foreign adversaries — compromising the enforcement of federal national security laws to defend America from CCP infiltration and influence operations.”
• Department of Commerce: “Despite abundant examples of CCP elite capture, the Department of Commerce is not currently studying, addressing, or otherwise warning the public about CCP infiltration operations targeting state and local governments and business leaders.”
Chairman Comer’s report offers an alarming assessment of its investigation of 25 U.S. Federal Agencies:
“Not one federal agency in this government-wide investigation demonstrated a sufficient strategy to confront CCP unrestricted warfare. Of the twenty-five agencies the Committee surveyed in this investigation, one transparently acknowledged CCP infiltration operations, elucidated a strategy to combat a piece of the Party’s campaign, and engaged in outreach to the American people about it. Unfortunately, this single example — the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), seeking to defeat CCP-backed chemical and drug warfare that fuels the fentanyl crisis6 — is hindered in its efforts to protect Americans due to the failure of the Biden-Harris Administration to adopt any government-wide strategy.”
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