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- 时间: 2019-3-26 11:38香港南华早报报道：
新冷战 当前危险委员会 中国
Cold war is back: Steve Bannon helps revive US committee to target ‘aggressive totalitarian foe’ China
- Former White House strategist among founders of a new version of group whose past incarnations focused on the Soviet Union
- Members say China poses ‘existential and ideological threat to the United States and the idea of freedom’
Wendy Wu
Published: 1:17pm, 26 Mar, 2019
Updated: 1:28am, 27 Mar, 2019
Steve Bannon is among the co-founders of a committee that first existed in the 1950s before reappearing in 1976. Photo: EPA-EFE
Agroup of Washington policy advisers and former US government officialsincluding Steve Bannon have revived a cold war-era advocacy organisationto take aim at China, which it called “an aggressive totalitarian foe”.
TheCommittee on the Present Danger: China, or CPDC, will be launched tofacilitate “public education and advocacy against the full array ofconventional and non-conventional dangers” posed by the ruling ChineseCommunist Party, the group said in an announcement on Monday.
Thecommittee’s latest iteration underscores the growth of opposition toBeijing in Washington’s policymaking circles, which has helped to fuel abilateral tariff war started by US President Donald Trump last year anda new law that will tighten oversight of Chinese investments in theUnited States.
TheCommittee on the Present Danger (CPD) was first established in theearly 1950s as a bulwark against the influence of communism in the US.The group disbanded after some leading members were drafted into theadministration of Dwight Eisenhower, but in 1976 was reformed by USforeign policy hawks to counter the Soviet Union during the cold war.
Thecommittee members warned at a press event in Washington on Monday thatChina had posed a broad range of threats to the US: expanding militarypower, strengthening strategic nuclear capability, stealing UStechnology, repressing religions, human rights and minority groups,initiating “chemical warfare” by being the prime source of
fentanyl reaching the US
and influencing US campuses and corporations.
“Aswith the Soviet Union in the past, communist China represents anexistential and ideological threat to the United States and to the ideaof freedom – one that requires a new American consensus regarding thepolicies and priorities required to defeat this threat,” the committee’sannouncement said.
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Thegroup’s vice-chairman Frank Gaffney, a defence adviser to formerpresident Ronald Reagan, said the committee hoped to “set the stage for aseries of national debates about China” to address the threats thecountry posed. Gaffney has spent much of his time since leavinggovernment in the 1980s propagating stridently anti-Islamic views.
Evenif Beijing faithfully kept its commitments under a trade agreement thatWashington is trying to negotiate with China, the US would still faceserious threats in other areas and must address those, Gaffney said.
Frank Gaffney said the revived committee aimed to initiate a series of debates about China. Photo: AFPShare:
“China’sarsenal for global supremacy includes economic, informational,political and military warfare,” read a statement by James Fanell, aformer US Navy intelligence official focusing on Pacific securityaffairs. The US “has witnessed already China’s expansion into the vacuumof a diminishing US presence in East Asia”, he said.
Fanellargued that Washington needed to regain a military deterrence positionin the Indo-Pacific. “We already have slipped,” he said. “If we fall anyfurther, we may not recover.”
SashaGong, also a member of the new CPD, said China was “waging anideological war” against the US, which was “losing ground” and shouldconsider it “as urgent as military defence”.
“Weare disarming ourselves; meanwhile Chinese are taking our ground,broadcasting here, taking our people and winning hearts and minds,” saidGong, adding that the US’ response to China’s aggression was “veryinadequate”.
Gong is the former chief of Voice of America’s Mandarin service. She
was sacked
by the US government-funded broadcaster along with two others inNovember for their involvement in a live-streamed 2017 interview withChinese fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui, who has used social media to make
corruption accusations
against senior Chinese officials including Vice-President Wang Qishan.
In a faxed reply to the South China Morning Post,China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it had not heard aboutthe organisation and that it was a “dead end” to revisit the coldwar-era zero-sum mindset.
“We have repeatedly stated our stances with regard to the ‘China threat’ cliché,” the ministry said.
“Wehope some people in the United States view China’s development inproper perspective, stop groundless accusations and defamation againstChina, and instead, be more engaged in deeds that would benefit China-USrelations, the peace, stability and prosperity of the world,” theministry said.
Althoughthe committee boasts a roster of China experts, it also features anumber of US public figures not known primarily as authorities on thecountry’s affairs.
The founders of the committee also include Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and co-founder of
far-right news outlet Breitbart
, which he described in an interview with American magazine Mother Jones as a “platform for the alt-right”.
Bannon is also known for being a former vice-president of
Cambridge Analytica
,the now-defunct data analysis firm that harvested the data of millionsof Facebook users to predict and influence political movements.
TheCPD gained notoriety in its first iteration when it issued NSC 68, apolicy directive that called on Congress to triple the US defence budgetto counter the Soviet Union’s expansion, according to a 2004 report byUS political newspaper The Hill.
Thesecond CPD was formed in 1976 by hawks from the Democratic andRepublican parties who believed that “detente [had] lulled everybodyinto complacency”, The Hill quoted Yale University cold war scholar John Gaddis as saying.
Thereport described that CPD’s members as the original “neoconservatives” –former liberals who became disillusioned with the Democratic Partyduring the Jimmy Carter administration and advocated that the USinitiate an arms build-up.
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