Stop using – and underwriting – CCP corporate threats
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission formally designated two giant Chinese telecommunications firms as nationally security threats. As a result, American carriers will be unable to use our government’s funds to buy equipment for their networks from Huawei or ZTE.
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Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission formally designated two giant Chinese telecommunications firms as national security threats. As a result, American carriers will be unable to use our government’s funds to buy equipment for their networks from Huawei or ZTE.
Huawei happens also to have been recently identified by the Pentagon as one of 20 “Communist Chinese military companies” doing business in the United States.
Yet, as things stand now, both Huawei and ZTE are still allowed to raise money in U.S. capital markets – as are at least a dozen other People’s Liberation Army corporations busily underwriting their malevolent activities, including the CCP’s vast arms build-up, with our money.
As Senator Tom Cotton put it recently, “That needs to stop, now.” President Trump should make doing so a priority with respect to ZTE, Huawei and other Chinese corporations that threaten our national security.
This is Frank Gaffney.
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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