Point of View March 19, 2025 – Hour 1 : China

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View. First hour today we're going to spend some time talking about China for a number of different reasons. First of all our March issue of Outlook is on China and if you don't receive that we'd be glad to send you a copy.

[00:00:31] But it's one of the reasons why I would encourage you as we next week talk about our Truth Team Week to encourage you maybe to make a donation so that you can receive it because again that's one of our ways to educate you. We're going to be talking about a couple of books, one in particular from Senator Tom Cotton, Seven Things You Can't Say About China. A little bit later we'll also get into one by Gordon Chang who's been in studio with us and also by phone, Plan Red, China's Project to Destroy America.

[00:00:59] You're going to hear a lot of things here you won't hear on the mainstream media and I think it will be very obvious in that regard. But first let's celebrate a few things and that is if you've been paying attention and following the Starliner saga, you recognize that we had two astronauts up there, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and they've been waiting for a fairly long period of time. That'd be like 286 days worth of waiting when they thought they were going up for eight days

[00:01:28] because they've been stuck in the International Space Station. Well, they were able to splash down yesterday in a SpaceX Dragon capsule. Now you can talk about Elon Musk in a positive sense or a negative sense, but you really do have to admit that this is pretty remarkable. And it is sad to say that first of all, it got some coverage from the press,

[00:01:54] but in some respects the rescuing of two astronauts I think was pretty significant by a private company, by an individual that whether you're talking about Tesla cars or SpaceX or all sorts of other aspects of what has been developed under a man by the name of Elon Musk, I think you should celebrate that. And yet sadly yesterday I think half the country was maybe celebrating it and the other half probably was not.

[00:02:22] How have they paid back Elon Musk? Well, some people have been saying that Tesla is on a death watch right now. There are individuals including the former vice presidential candidate, Tim Walsh, who is the governor of the state of Minnesota. He says he keeps on his phone every day the Tesla stock so he can watch it go down and feel better about that. Tesla has been booted from the latest auto show.

[00:02:47] There are people that are now saying that this may be the world's most hated car company. And so the stock is down. You also have hackers now. This came out just today that have released the names, the addresses, the emails and the phone numbers of every Tesla owner. And it even has an interactive map on that. Of course, we've talked about over the last couple of days vehicle attacks, EVs setting ablaze,

[00:03:17] bullets making their way through some of these Tesla showrooms, Molotov cocktails and the rest. And that, unfortunately, is a sad commentary on where our country is today. Even if you dislike Elon Musk, even if you think what he's doing is not good, and I might remind you he's doing it free of charge, sometimes sleeping in just one of those spare rooms in the executive office building, he could be going doing anything else. But you are not harming him. He's a billionaire.

[00:03:46] You're harming all the people that work for Tesla. Now all the people that own a Tesla car, all the individuals that are doing maintenance to it and building it. And it just, just again, a very sad commentary on what has really unfolded here in America. Well, that's enough of my commentary. We might get back to it a little bit later in the second hour. But I promised today we would talk about China. And a lot of it is going to come from the book by Tom Cotton,

[00:04:16] Seven Things You Can't Say About China. Why did he call it that? Well, it turns out that he, more than other people sometimes, have actually called out China. Early on he talks about the fact that when we first heard the news about the virus coming out of China, in particular Wuhan China, he took what the claims were by the Chinese and assumed that they were probably just the opposite

[00:04:43] because their argument was that this was not spreading, but they had actually closed down travel from China. And so he was the first individual to advocate a ban on travel from China. And of course, you know how he was denounced by Anthony Fauci as being culturally insensitive, denounced by Joe Biden as a product of hysteria, xenophobia and fear mongering. Of course, eventually we did actually shut that down.

[00:05:12] Then later on, he referred to it as the Wuhan coronavirus and got criticized for that. And he said, look, we have a long history of talking about the West Nile virus, the Asian flu, the Hong Kong flu, Ebola and all the rest. And again, all sorts of people criticizing him, saying that this was not going to make us safe. And then finally, of course, he was the one, along with some of us around this table,

[00:05:37] who said, you know, it just is asking us to believe too much that indeed, when we have a breakout of a virus and it only took place in Wuhan, China, to actually believe that it happened at a wet market when it's right next to China's highest risk super lab, which has had a history of other lab leaks.

[00:05:59] And as a result, of course, he was then criticized for racial discrimination, xenophobia and the rest. You have Lancet calling his statement a conspiracy theory. Huffington Post saying don't listen to Senator Tom Cotton about the coronavirus and a variety of others. NPR saying virus researchers say there's virtually no chance that a new coronavirus was released as a result of a laboratory accident.

[00:06:28] And of course, we know all of the story. But the point he's making is, is he began to learn that there are really some things you can't say about China. But he is a senator and he recognizes he can say some things about China. And more importantly, because he sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he has access to a lot of information most people on this planet do not have.

[00:06:56] And so I think it is worth listening to what he has to say. Although again, if you try to find this book, I'll hold it up right now. Now, seven things you can't see say about China. I've been to two Barnes and Noble bookstores. Haven't found it in there. I've heard it's a bestselling book, according to New York Times sales. But it's I bought mine, of course, through online. But nevertheless, you are if you even go and look at the reviews about his book. All sorts of people are criticizing him.

[00:07:25] It's a racist person writing a racist book. It's xenophobia. There's not a shred of evidence in it. And of course, we're going to be talking as we go through his book and then a little bit from Gordon Chang's book to illustrate only so well that he has the facts, the figures, the footnotes. And of course, the intelligence briefings to illustrate that seven things you can't say about China. You know what? I'm going to say them. And that's something we'll talk about here on point of view.

[00:07:52] Let me also point you to not only his book, which I would highly recommend. We have information about it and even an article about it on the website at point of view dot net. You might also want to get a copy of our latest issue of China, where we have a commentary by me on Plan Red, which is Gordon Chang's book. Then a whole section on the China challenge, which I have written liberty writing on tick tock. Yes, we're going to get into tick tock in just a minute. And Warren Kelly writing about the China threat.

[00:08:20] And so these are resources we want to put in your hands, because I dare say you can turn on almost any talk show today. You can probably go to any news outlet today. You can probably go to almost any Internet Web site. You're probably not going to hear some of the things we're going to talk about right here on point of view. Let's take a break. We also have kind of an outline you can follow. It's on the Web site that Karen has posted and we will be back right after this.

[00:08:47] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Dr. Sean McDowell reminds us that apologetics and an ever changing culture must be about taking timeless truths and applying them to timely issues and challenges. Sixteen years ago, he was the editor of the book Apologetics for a New Generation.

[00:09:16] And I have recommended it as a resource at the time. He and other authors attempted to answer many of the questions teenagers and college students were asking. He has updated that information in his new book Apologetics for an Ever Changing Culture. He argues that we need apologetics now more than ever because Christian students are bombarded by anti-Christian messages on social media, in the classroom and among friends. When he was on my radio program earlier this month, we talked about some of the additions and changes in his new book.

[00:09:45] For example, he said that if someone suggested he have an author write a chapter on transgenderism, he would wonder why that should be included. The chapter on the transgender debate is a necessary addition. Even though Sean studied philosophy, it didn't seem like the earlier book should include a chapter on critical theory. Anyone who's heard anything about critical race theory or critical queer theory knows why this chapter was included. He also highlights the work of men and women making a significant contribution to the discussion.

[00:10:14] One example is the addition of a chapter on urban apologetics. Another is a chapter by Natasha Crane on doing apologetics in the home. The forward to both books is written by David Kinnaman, CEO of Barna Group. You will also appreciate some of the interviews Sean does with apologists like Lee Strobel, Jeff Myers and Hilary Morgan Ferrer. We need to know how to answer the questions surfacing in our changing culture. This is a book to help you do so. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view.

[00:10:46] For a free booklet on a biblical view of genetic engineering, go to viewpoints.info slash genetic engineering. Viewpoints.info slash genetic engineering. You're listening to Point of View, your listener supported source for truth. China's our topic the first hour and let me if I can for just a few minutes kind of give an overview of the seven things you can't say about China. Then I'll try to dip into a few of those.

[00:11:14] As I mentioned just a minute ago, if you go to the website, there is an outline that you can follow in case you want to take some notes or just kind of get a sense of where we're going. And that outline is available right in front of, of course, the information about these two books that I'll be quoting from. And I think you'll find them. And I think you'll find them very helpful. So the first thing that you can't say, he says, is China is an evil empire. That I think is pretty obvious.

[00:11:37] And I probably will spend more time on that chapter than any other as we go through this, because look at how the Chinese Communist Party has victimized the Chinese people. And also, as we even talked about earlier in the week and as we've talked about in the past, the digital surveillance of individuals. It is a police state which has allowed these leaders to really destroy the way of life of the Chinese. We've talked about the one child policy.

[00:12:06] We've talked about torture, the murdering of peaceful dissidents. The list goes on and on and on. So the first one, pretty obvious. But again, something you won't heard say very often. Second thing that you cannot say is that China is preparing for war. Matter of fact, if you get the Outlook magazine, I even give you a quote from Gordon Chang where he talks about Xi Jinping really as an individual that can't stop talking about that.

[00:12:33] But here, Senator Tom Cotton takes you all the way back to a previous dictator, Deng Xiaoping, who advised China maybe to hide its strength and bide its time so that people would be less aware. But no longer. China is now kind of returned to the policy of Mao Zedong in which they are really engaged in what you might call reckless aggression. That's the second one.

[00:12:59] The third one is China is engaging in an economic world war. It has, I think you would understand again, destroyed millions of American jobs, shuttered thousands of American factories, stolen so much American intellectual property, and as a result have been able to fight the battle.

[00:13:24] If they can't fight it yet on the battlefield, certainly the battlefield has been an economic world war that is taking place. Number four, China has infiltrated our society. That one, again, should be pretty obvious if you've listened to Point of View because there are so many people that don't want to talk about China as illustrated by my comment just a minute ago.

[00:13:47] We, in the past, have talked about individuals in the NFL that when there was the brutal crackdown in Hong Kong, a few of those individuals, and one, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, and another individual, talked about that. And sooner or later, they were just encouraged to go elsewhere.

[00:14:07] I can give you some great examples, and the book gives you unbelievable examples of Hollywood changing the themes, the individuals in various movies so that to not offend the Chinese authorities in all the rest. And so that is certainly the case. A couple more. The fifth one, China has infiltrated our government.

[00:14:28] Again, we've talked about that on a number of different occasions of individuals using either traditional spy craft or sometimes what is called the China lobby, where they target maybe our military or people of influence in one way or another. And, of course, we've talked about the linkage in some cases between the previous president, the Biden family, and China, and that is, I think, well-documented as well.

[00:14:55] Number six, Senator Tom Cotton says China is coming for our kids. Now, that, of course, gets us into issues like TikTok, and we have a very good article by Liberty McCarter that you can read in The Outlook, but he has a whole chapter dealing with that. But then goes on to talk about a number of other things, and not the least of which drugs.

[00:15:15] You know, we have the opium wars in the past, and now today we have sort of a modernized opium war, but it's fentanyl and the dangers of that. And really, when you talk about this, it has affected everything from addiction to death of our young people. And then number seven, China could win.

[00:15:36] A Chinese victory in the struggle with America for global mastery would be a really dangerous world, as we've tried to point out in numerous occasions in the past. Because where would we be if China was the superpower and there was not a United States?

[00:15:55] If there was not a European Union, you can begin to see how dangerous, indeed, that would be, and how many of our rights would be simply eradicated, erased, and eradicated very quickly. So, again, we're talking about a communist dictatorship. Just notice how few people want to refer to China as having even a communist party. Then we have what he calls the techno-totalitarian police state.

[00:16:23] As I pointed out before, someone estimated that maybe half of the video surveillance cameras in the world are in China. Now, I recognize there's more than a billion people in China, but you can see that the focus there is on subjugating the people. Here today, there are two million police officers that monitor China's streets.

[00:16:45] They're supported by an estimated three and a half million private security officers and 660,000 paramilitary soldiers in the People's Armed Police. So, if you want to understand why we should be concerned about this, simply look at what would happen, perhaps, in this country,

[00:17:07] if, indeed, something else were to happen, and no longer was the United States a countervailing force against China. Also, in this whole idea of an evil empire is Chinese persecution. The persecution of believers, also of Falun Gong, and also of even what has happened in Tibet are really of concern.

[00:17:33] But here on this program, we've certainly talked about what it's like to be a Christian. Now, you can be part of the house church, or you can be part of, I see, the state church. But if you're part of the house churches, well, you're going to face persecution. But one of the things that Senator Tom Cotton reminds us is not only are they trying to rewrite Christianity, they're even trying to rewrite the Bible.

[00:17:57] For example, there is a new translation here, which is an attempt to replace the Word of God with the Word of Mao. Let me just use one example. In John 8, you have the story of a woman who was caught in adultery, and Jesus was asked, should the woman be stoned for this crime of adultery? You remember the story. He says, he who is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

[00:18:27] Okay, the crowd disperses, and then Jesus says to the woman, go and sin no more. Well, that's what's in your Bible. That's not in the communist Bible. Instead, in the communist version, Jesus waits until the crowd leaves, and then he stones the woman himself, explaining, I too am a sinner, but if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.

[00:18:51] So the implication of this is, is that any time you cross a leader in China, even if it's someone who you think is the son of God, that's not enough, because there is no belief that everyone is equal under the law, and so they've even rewritten the Bible there in China. Number two, of course, we also need to talk about the fact that China is preparing for war.

[00:19:19] He goes through a lot of detail about the bloody history of Chinese communist aggression, and that should probably be pretty obvious to most of us, but then reminds us that what you have today with the Chinese Communist Party is a one-sided arms buildup, in which you are certainly now having the largest ground force possible, 970,000 soldiers strong.

[00:19:49] Of course, if you look at your Bible, talking about the kings of the East having a million plus, you can see in all those kinds of numbers, you can recognize how that could actually be the case. And, of course, if you had to then actually mobilize everyone there, you could have an army that, of course, the Bible talks about, 100 million, and all those factors are playing out right before our very eyes.

[00:20:14] Then you begin to see the fact that they have expanded their navy, they're expanding their air force, and, interestingly enough, they're also engaged in building so many nuclear weapons that, right a number of years ago, when Xi Jinping took office, about 240 nuclear weapons. Now, 10 years later, 500 nuclear weapons.

[00:20:42] And the plan eventually is to have 1,000 nuclear weapons and perhaps even stockpiling 1,500 nuclear warheads. This is not the attitude or the actions of a nation that desires peace. And, again, we've only covered two of the sections, but when we come back from the break, we're going to spend some time talking about some of the other things you can't say about China.

[00:21:08] But, fortunately, Senator Tom Cotton says them in his book, and we're going to say them today here on Point of View. If you'd like to get some more information, we've posted a couple of articles, an outline, an article about Tom Cotton's book, also one from the New York Times about how finally they've come clean about COVID. A few years late, but here they are. The Bible tells us not to worry,

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[00:23:02] The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Back once again, we're going to continue talking about China. But let me also just mention, as I did just a minute ago, that one of the benefits, of course, of joining with us on the Truth Team is the Outlook magazine. Of course, if you join at a level of a dollar a day, $30 a month, that also includes not only the Outlook magazine we send to you,

[00:23:32] but also these upcoming booklets that we've been sending out for some time and really are a great way to educate you and your family. So, you know, Truth Team is on the way. You should be looking for an email from me in your inbox, and you can get all sorts of details about what's going to come on next week. Also, you can, of course, visit our website. That is pointofview.net. We really need you to help us get off to a great start, and quite frankly, we can't do it without you. So, again, all that information can be found on the website.

[00:24:01] There is a banner that says Anchored to Truth, and you can find out more there. Also, as you click on that button that says See More, you will see a couple of things. First of all, the outline that I'm kind of working my way through today, in case you want to follow it. Then the seven things you can't say about China, the Plan Red book. Also an article about Tom Cotton and his book on China that came out. And even the New York Times finally coming clean about China and COVID.

[00:24:29] A few years too late, but nevertheless, that is the case. We will get into a couple of other topics sooner enough, but let's get back to looking at now another thing you can't say, and that is China is waging economic world war. That is something that President Trump talked about when he came in and really tried to address in his first four years. I know he's going to do that again.

[00:24:56] And it is important to recognize how, as Tom Cotton in this book points out, China has been rigging the game for some time. They've manipulated the Chinese currency. Of course, they have had all sorts of government-backed industries, so that we in this country sometimes have to compete with industries that are backed by the Chinese government. Hence, you can see why we talk sometimes about these tariffs,

[00:25:22] because it is making it much easier for China to produce goods, sometimes that slave labor over here. Then we can actually pay less. So people tend to do that. And as a result, we end up gutting the factories, the manufacturers, the entrepreneurs here in the country. Also, he spends a little bit of time talking about how green is the new red and how this whole environmental issue has been used sometimes by the Chinese

[00:25:51] to also advance their particular ideologies. And, of course, economic imperialism. But I wanted to camp out for just a minute on something which has been part of Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative. This has been a desire on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to spread its military, economic, and political influence all over Asia, Africa, and Europe.

[00:26:21] And in some respects, it's sort of looking at the Silk Road in reverse. And so there's been really an attempt to try to invest in projects, some of which make really no sense economically, but to use that in an effective way. One example they talk about is Sri Lanka, which is this island nation just off of kind of India's southern coast. And it has been a key terrain for both China and an old rival, India.

[00:26:50] China financed a $210 million airport, gave Sri Lanka more than a billion dollars in high-interest loans. But, as you might imagine, they were not able to pay those loans back, especially in some of the things we've talked about in Sri Lanka in the past. And so, as a result, then what China did was say, well, then we need you, Sri Lanka, to sign a 99-year lease

[00:27:17] so that we can have a port there in Sri Lanka. And if you go and look at that port, you will see oftentimes China vessels are located there. And so the idea is sometimes to invest in all sorts of places. Talks about some other ones, investing in a Belgrade, Budapest rail line, and all sorts of other things that actually don't seem to make a great deal of sense,

[00:27:44] a rail project in Africa and all sorts of things. But the goal here isn't necessarily to always make money. Instead, Tom Cotton says it's a little bit like Vito Corleone in The Godfather. Remember The Godfather? In which he basically at one point says, someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. And so we will just have it so that all these various countries

[00:28:12] will have a debt that they would have to pay to China. And that might be as simple as voting against the United Nations in the UN. It could be a vote at the World Health Organization. Who knows? But you can see some of what that involves as well. Also, I've mentioned how China has infiltrated our society.

[00:28:37] He gives all sorts of examples about, for example, when Brad Pitt did Seven Years in Tibet, and then later when also you had Martin Scorsese directed Kundun. These were films that were criticized China and talked about China's genocide in Tibet. And so as a result, China then decided to ban Disney and Sony-affiliated films.

[00:29:02] And it didn't take long for everybody in Hollywood to recognize we better just fall in line. For those of you that love the Marvel series, Doctor Strange, for example, the British actress Tilda Swinton, who plays the Ancient One in the Marvel comic book series, and later, of course, in one of the other Marvels, when they were going back to retrieve some of those stones,

[00:29:30] originally in the comic book she was of Tibetan origin. You may have noticed she was not there from that in the film. And you can use example after example after example that just illustrate again how most people in Hollywood learned a long time ago don't do anything to hurt our market there in China. I did, of course, also mention what has happened in professional sports.

[00:29:57] Daryl Morey, who at the time was the general manager of the Houston Rockets, simply said, fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong. That was his offense. That was enough to get him in trouble with not only China, but also with the NBA. And notice that the NBA never defended his right of free speech. As a matter of fact, just the opposite. You might remember at the time we talked about how LeBron James said

[00:30:22] that Morey was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation. And there were others that actually took to the airwaves as well, including Stephen A. Smith, who talked about Morey and another individual as well, that said, you have an obligation to adopt and embrace the interest of those you collect a paycheck from.

[00:30:46] And everybody learned very, very quickly, whether it was him or the CEO of the Brooklyn Nets, David Levy, they all just simply didn't cover it. And that, of course, brings us to the news media. How many times have you even seen the news media over the last couple of years refer to China as a communist country? How many times have they referred to a communist dictator? Probably not a whole lot.

[00:31:13] And that, I think, is why, again, we encourage you to have some discernment. And finally, let me just talk about education for just a minute, because what you also see is that in many campuses across the country, for many years there's been a way to actually get some of these communist ideas into the universities of America. One, with, of course, the number of Chinese students that have studied here. And again, don't be naive.

[00:31:43] The Chinese students who come here are those who have a very high credit score, who obviously are individuals that support all that is being done in China. And certainly, if anything, are there to maybe even promote those ideas. But then you also have, on many of these campuses, what's called the Confucius Institutes. And those are places which, again, are promoting these ideas of communist China.

[00:32:10] And, of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that some of those ideas that were on the campus have now made their way into the corporate boardrooms as well. So whether you're looking at business, whether you're looking at Wall Street, or whether you're looking at professional sports, whether you're looking at the media, you can see that there's a very long chapter about how China has infiltrated our society. When we come back from the break, we'll talk briefly about how it's infiltrated our government.

[00:32:39] And most importantly, what can we do? The good news is there's a great deal we can do. As a matter of fact, one of the things I mention in my article of Corden Chang's book is there's a chapter on what America must do now. But the first step is to acknowledge there's a problem. If you've heard me say it once, you've heard me say it dozens and dozens of times. You can't solve a problem if you won't admit it's a problem.

[00:33:07] You can't solve the problem of a growing national debt if you'll never talk about a growing national debt. You can't talk about how to defend ourselves against an enemy like China if you'll never admit that China is an enemy. Perhaps you should ask your member of Congress whether he or she thinks China is an enemy. I think you'd be surprised sometimes at some of the equivocation and some of the non-answers you'll receive when you ask them that question.

[00:33:38] Anyway, let's take a break. We've got more to cover. We'll do that right after this. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. For a few more minutes as we talk about China. And by the way, we'd love to hear from you.

[00:34:05] Perhaps if you think that this is something we should do again or maybe you've learned some things that you didn't hear elsewhere, I'd love to hear from you. Or perhaps you're like some of the people that have written about Tom Cotton's book and say it's racist and we don't need to hear any more and you're over-exaggerating the threat from China. You can say that too. We believe in free speech and love to hear what you have to say about some of those issues. But let me now, if I can, really merge the two of these together

[00:34:30] because Tom Cotton's book talks about how China has infiltrated our government, is coming for our kids, and could win a war. Well, Gordon Chang has a whole section on China's plan, China's attempt at war plans. And one of the things he talks about is that in this book, there's a real sobering warning about the plans China has developed so that it can be the one superpower in the world.

[00:34:57] And Gordon Chang goes on to say that this is not just a desire to win a war, but to win an unrestricted war, and as a result, a hot war, which in his book, Senator Tom Cotton points out that we've done some of these simulations, these war games, and it never turns out well. Even when China loses, the devastation is amazing. And as, again, one of the things that Gordon Chang points out is

[00:35:25] Xi Jinping cannot stop talking about going into battle with the United States, and he has implemented the largest and fastest military buildup since the Second World War, and we can see some dangers. One of those in the chapter on how China has infiltrated our government looks at targeting the military, in which there is old-fashioned spy work, there's bribes.

[00:35:50] Of course, we've seen various Chinese agents that have gotten close to army intelligence officers, even close to members of Congress. In some cases, they've even decided that they would buy land next to a military base. For example, there was an attempt to do so in Grand Fork's North Dakota's Air Force base, but then people tried to reverse that.

[00:36:18] In Texas, they were trying to do the very same thing. And just the other day, I heard on a very brief excerpt that Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed out that she has been, and I don't know how that all happened, been able to remove all of the Chinese ownership of land in Arkansas. Well, great that she's been able to do it in Arkansas, but that's certainly not true in a lot of places in the United States.

[00:36:46] And so then, of course, Tom Cotton talks about the Washington swamp, because the reality is there have been a fair number of people that have been lobbying in favor of China, and we have seen that taking place in a number of different cases. He, of course, then names all sorts of names, so you can go through that and recognize what a concern that is, because in some respects that might also explain

[00:37:13] why it's sometimes very difficult to get a member of Congress to even refer to China as an enemy. You can't fight an enemy if you don't even acknowledge it's an enemy. And then, even if you say, well, I just don't have a lot of interest in military strategy, how about Chapter 6 on China is Coming for Our Kids? Now, again, you could read this very well-written piece by Senator Tom Cotton on TikTok, but I might also commend to you the piece by Liberty,

[00:37:42] which is an uncertain future for TikTok in the U.S., because it is quite obvious that it has been China-owned. It has been a way to collect lots of information on individuals, and, of course, it also is promoting some content, amplifying some content that certainly is not helpful to the United States of America. I might also mention that, in addition to that,

[00:38:08] goes into how, in some respects, you've got those Confucius classrooms, which I referred to just a minute ago, and China has even partnered with the College Board to indoctrinate your students and your children. The College Board is an organization that oversees the SAT and advanced placement, but there are a couple of places where you can honestly see where some of those ideas have made it even into some of the curriculum.

[00:38:37] So it's a place where you need to pay attention. But the last chapter is an ominous one. China could win. And, again, this comes from an individual who is a sitting senator. I think he's number three in seniority. He is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He has access to information none of us have access to, and oftentimes he's asked, well, do you think it's that bad? As a matter of fact, sometimes he says,

[00:39:04] I'm often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no. It's worse than you can imagine. That's a direct quote from him. And so, again, we have to pay attention. We are still a strong nation, but we certainly have to understand that there are some very significant threats that exist and should be addressed in one way or another. Which, again, brings me to some of the material from Gordon Chang's book, which is called Plan Red.

[00:39:34] Interestingly enough, endorsements from Victor Davis Hanson, Lou Dobbs, Dick Morris, Sebastian Gorkin, to mention just a few. And as a result, we spent a fair amount of time trying to talk about some of the misunderstandings, some of the myths, the misinformation, and all of the rest. But most importantly, also to recognize how strategic Taiwan is.

[00:40:00] It's oftentimes referred to as the heart of Asia because of its location. It's not that large in some respects about the size of the state of Maryland, and it's a home for about 23 million people. But nevertheless, it is vital to our computer industry because it manufactures more than 60% of the world's semiconductors. But even more than that,

[00:40:28] it produces 90% of the more advanced computer chips. Of course, that's one of the reasons why President Trump wants to bring some of these industries back to the United States. We recognize during the pandemic the dangers of having things we need located in China. In this case, can you imagine if indeed China was able to take over Taiwan,

[00:40:54] our ability to have access to these very important semiconductors and chips and computer chips would be really at risk. And so these are some reasons why we think it is really important for you to know a little bit more about China. And as I mentioned just a minute ago, we now have, interestingly enough, the New York Times finally coming clean about COVID.

[00:41:22] This particular article, though, that came out is a reminder that back, maybe you've seen this, when Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he was making kind of a joke about the fact that everybody is trying to say it came from a wet market. And he said, well, there's an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened? Well, I don't know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean. Or maybe it's the chocolate factory.

[00:41:51] Maybe that's it. And so I'd forgotten this, but even at the time, you had Dan Rather saying this is dangerous and short-sighted, although it was a comedy sketch. You had the Washington Post say that celebrities shouldn't be engaged in misinformation. But, of course, now we know, after a long, long period of time, what we suspected from the beginning was the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of what?

[00:42:21] Virology. But, nevertheless, we've posted that article for you to see as well. And it's just a reminder of how you really can't say certain things about China without paying a heavy penalty. But Tom Cotton was willing to say it in his book, and I'm willing to say it today here on Point of View. We come back from the break. We're going to spend some time, first of all, with our friend Ann Edward. You may remember her as Ann Palk. We're going to talk about a new conference.

[00:42:47] And then we have all sorts of articles that are surfacing that you need to know about, all sorts of news items you need to know about. And if you'd like to find anything we've talked about today, it's on the website at pointofview.net. Let's take a break. We'll come back with the conference and some of these news items right after this. Well, Truth Team Week is just about here, and we need your help.

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