Committee on the Present Danger: China
hawkish Committee on the Present Danger and unveiled on March 25, 2019.[2] The CPDC is focused on education and advocacy on the existential and ideological threat to the United States posed by Communist China.[3]
FoundingThe organization was announced with Frank Gaffney, an former White House official under President Ronald Reagan, playing a key role. Its stated aim is to "educate and inform American citizens and policymakers about the existential threats presented from the Peoples Republic of China under the misrule of the Chinese Communist Party".[4] Between 2000 and 2023, there were 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed at the United States.[5] The CPDC takes the view that there is "no hope of coexistence with China as long as the Communist Party governs the country".[6] In a statement on the launch of the committee, the Population Research Institute stated:
Members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC)The Committee on the Present Danger: China lists a variety of members including the former politicians and national security professionals, White House officials, business leaders, and others:[8]
CriticismsThe CPDC has been criticized as promoting a revival of Watson Institute called the CPDC "a Who's Who of contemporary wing-nuts, very few of whom have any expertise at all about China and most of whom represent ideological causes only peripherally connected to it."[4]
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