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THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESENT DANGER: CHINA
PRESENTS

AN EMERGENCY SUMMIT ON TAIWAN

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Today, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under the leadership of its General Secretary, Xi Jinping, appears to be both more capable and more disposed than ever to compel the free people of Taiwan to submit to Beijing’s domination and tyrannical control. A combination of factors suggest that Beijing perceives at the moment a window of opportunity to use force, if necessary, to accomplish this longstanding goal.

The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a group formed to raise awareness about and promote effective action to counter the myriad threats posed to America and the rest of the Free World by the CCP, believes the United States must act immediately to strengthen deterrence of a Chinese attack on Taiwan. To that end, it has convened an Emergency Summit featuring the analyses and recommendations of an impressive group of America’s preeminent past and present policymakers, strategic analysts and military leaders.

The Emergency Summit is addressing the following topics:

  • The Chinese Communist Party’s historic ambition to unify Taiwan with the mainland as the next step in its quest for global hegemony.
  • The opposition of the people of a democratic, free and sovereign Taiwan to the fate the Chinese Communists have in mind for them – namely, the enslavement to which the CCP has recently subjected Hong Kong.
  • The increasing ability of the PRC to achieve the forcible seizure of Taiwan with a combination of: ballistic and other missiles; naval and amphibious forces; military and dual-use combat and transportation aircraft; paratroopers; and occupation personnel.
  • Internal Chinese dynamics – political, economic, demographic and strategic – that may prompt Xi to cast caution to the winds and go for it in Taiwan.
  • Chinese perceptions of a window of opportunity arising from debilitating conditions – including several to which it has contributed greatly – inside the United States and, to varying degrees, other allied states.
  • The options for the United States to increase the potential costs to the CCP of any invasion of the island and to deal with lesser contingencies including China’s seizure of Taiwanese controlled islands off the coast of the mainland and a PLA naval blockade of Taiwan itself.
    • By enhancing its own military readiness and forward deployments
    • By improving the Taiwanese self-defense capabilities
    • By collaborating with other allies willing to join in the defense of Taiwan

SUMMIT AGENDA:

  • Brian Kennedy
    Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger: China
  • Frank Gaffney
    Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Present Danger: China | moderator
  • The Honorable Pete Hoekstra
    Former Chairman, House Intelligence Committee, Chairman, Center for Security Policy Advisory Board
    “China’s Unrestricted Warfare Against Taiwan”
  • Roger Robinson
    Former Director, International Economic Affairs, Reagan National Security Council, Founder, RWR Advisory Group
    “Deterring China: The Economic and Financial Security Warfare Fronts”
  • Dr. Stephen Bryen
    former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
    “Why We Must Act Now”
  • Col. Grant Newsham
    U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), former Foreign Service Officers, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy
    “The Allied Dimension”
  • Col. John Mills
    U.S. Army (Ret.), former psychological warfare specialist and civilian Director of Strategic, Cyberwarfare and International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense
    “Practical, Near-term and Necessary Steps to Enhance Deterrence of the CCP”
  • MG Joe Arbuckle, US Army (Ret.)
    Former Commander, US Army Industrial Operations Command, under, Flag Officers for America
    “The China Threat and the Logistics of Deterrence”
  • Jack Posobiec
    former Naval Intelligence officer, Senior Editor, Human Events and Host of Human Events Daily Podcast
    “Do the Chinese Internal Dynamics Make War over Taiwan Inevitable?”
  • Reggie Littlejohn
    President, Women’s Rights without Frontiers and co-sponsor of Stop the 2022 Genocide Games coalition
    “How the World Should Punish China if they Invade Taiwan”
  • Charles “Sam” Faddis
    former U.S. Army officer, former Clandestine Service Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
    “Covert Operations and Deterring the CCP”
  • J.R. Nyquist
    strategic analyst, author and essayist
    “China’s Allies: Russia, North Korea and Pakistan.”
  • Col. Rob Maness
    U.S. Air Force (Ret.), former U.S. Air Force bomber squadron commander, talk show host
    “Projecting Air Power in Defense of Taiwan”
  • Mark Helprin
    Best-selling author, strategist and essayist
    “Feasible, Near-term Enhancements to our Deterrent”
  • Rep. Chris Stewart (R-OH)
    Member, House Intelligence Committee
    “A Perspective from the House Intelligence Committee”
  • Capt. James Fanell
    US Navy (Ret.) Former Chief of Intelligence, US Pacific Fleet
    “China’s Order of Battle”
  • Richard Fisher
    Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center
    “The CCP’s Hypersonic and Other Emerging, Advanced Threats”
  • Maura Moynihan
    Former Radio Free Asia’s Bureau chief in Kathmandu, Nepal, human rights activist, author, filmmaker
    “China’s Second Front? India and Tibet”
  • Se Hoon Kim
    Director, CPDC’s Captive Nations Coalition
    “No more CCP Captive Nations”

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