Socialism ‘With Chinese Characteristics’
By Dr. Murray Bessette and Frank Gaffney
When President Richard Nixon visited China in February of 1972 and ended a quarter century of silence in official U.S.-China relations, the assumption on the part of American policy makers was that engagement would lead—slowly but inexorably—to the liberalization of China’s social, economic, and political systems. Opening China, in other words, would normalize China and bring it fully into the global community.
This didn’t happen as the Chinese leadership found ways to exploit Western efforts to normalize relations with China without giving up their communist ideology or the Chinese Communist Party’s official doctrine that sees the United States as a strategic enemy that will inevitably be destroyed.
We discuss in this occasional paper how China accomplished this over the past 40 years by adopting “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” an extremely deceptive strategy to make the world – especially the United States believe that China is becoming a responsible and law-abiding member of the community of nations and that China is moving towards a more socially and politically open society. This is in fact a ruse to exploit gullible and naïve to believe the ideological character of the Chinese party-state has changed. It has not and we must understand that socialism with Chinese characteristics is still communism and derived in theory and practice from Marxism-Leninism. China has successfully used this ruse to exploit global trade to become the second largest economic power and build a large military to exercise absolute control at home and, wherever possible, to project power abroad.
Recognizing and acting on the reality that China remains a communist country that is slowly and stealthily advancing its agenda of global domination is crucial to the future security of the United States.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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