Frank Gaffney, former acting assistant secretary of defense under the Reagan administration, has advocated for decisive action to cut off financial flows to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in response to its intensifying transnational repression of Chinese dissidents, including Falun Gong practitioners and Shen Yun Performing Arts.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, Gaffney described the CCP’s growing cross-border influence operations as a pressing national security concern that demands immediate attention.
“What we’re seeing is evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is probably both feeling emboldened and increasingly threatened,” he said. “That is why we’re seeing them become more aggressive in using all kinds of instruments inside America to suppress dissidents, their opponents, Americans, and any other threat that they perceive to the party and its control. We must try to expose that and challenge it wherever possible.”…