Blue-Ribbon Team Launches the ‘Committee on the Present Danger: China’

For Immediate Release

March 24, 2019

Hamilton Strategies, [email protected], Patrick Benner, 610.584.1096, ext. 104, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102

WASHINGTON—A distinguished team of China experts, national security practitioners, business leaders, human rights and religious freedom activists, and others will launch next week the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” (CPDC) to reprise a critically important role played by an earlier incarnation of such a group during the darkest days of the Cold War.

Then, as now, the United States faced an existential threat from an aggressive totalitarian foe. Now, as then, the nation needs to be awakened to the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party and the country it misrules—and equipped with recommendations for mitigating that multifaceted and growing threat.

WHO:      The Committee on the Present Danger: China 

WHAT:    Presentations on the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party and their mitigation

WHERE: Reserve Officers Association, Ballroom, One Constitution Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20002

WHEN:    1 to 2:30 p.m. Monday, March 25

WHY:       To arouse the American people and their elected representatives to the immense challenge our nation now faces from the Peoples Republic of China and how we must respond

The CPDC’s mission statement:

The mission of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the “Committee on Present Danger: China.”

Founding members of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China”—a number of whom will be present at the press conference on Monday—include: Brian Kennedy, chairman; Frank Gaffney, vice chairman; Hon. R. James Woolsey; Dr. William Bennett; Kyle Bass; Steve Bannon; Mark Helprin; Pastor Bob Fu; Kevin Freeman; Dr. Peter Pry; Dr. Sasha Gong; LTG William Boykin; Hon. Ed Timperlake; Dr. Mark Schneider; Richard Fisher; Amb. Hank Cooper; Lianchao Han; Dr. Michael Waller; Capt. James Fanell, USN (Ret.); Col./Dr. Lawrence Sellin, USA (Ret.); Dr. Dan Blumenthal; Dr. Stephen Mosher; and Dr. Bradley Thayer.

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