Wiping up the Pooh — CPAC TX
Gordon Chang and CEO of Epoch Times Jan Jekielek discuss the issues and threats surrounding China and the effects they present to America foreign and domestic policy.
The Chinese President, Xi Jinping is presenting a strong front to the world but Jekielek believes that, in reality and behind closed doors, the leader fears his own people as he faces issues from within as China undergoes a deep recession. Jekielek encourages the United States to take advantage of Chinese weakness to move away from engaging in business with China especially as the country’s communist regime tightens its grip over its own people and culture.
Making headlines lately is the Chinese Communist Party’s decision to ban lighthearted, Western children’s shows and characters like Peppa Pig and Winnie the Pooh.
“Humor is a fantastic way to basically test the security of any regime,” Jekielek remarks. He believes the recent ban is another way of keeping the Chinese people under Jinping’s thumb and just another piece of evidence that Jinping fears his own people. For similar reasons, Jekielek points out, China also remains staunchly areligious so as to keep the state as the religion and idol of the people.
In spite of the CCP regime’s numerous infringements on freedom that go even beyond these bans to the extermination of the Uyghurs, the United States continues to engage in business with China. Chang comments on the illogical circumstances, “And yet, we trade them, we invest with them, we give them technical information like how to make corona viruses more dangerous to humanity.”
Chang and Jekielek present the solution to these issues as America First Policy that will finally prioritize the American worker and American interests.