Decrying the Evil Empire ’with Chinese Characteristics’

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.      

One of the most impressive men in the Trump administration is Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger. A former journalist in Beijing and combat Marine, he is today one of the President’s most knowledgeable and robust China experts. 

Mr. Pottinger’s skills were on display in a speech delivered in fluent Mandarin on Monday to a University of Virginia audience. But it was clearly intended for the people of China, too. He subtly appealed for them to draw on “traditional Chinese ideals about virtuous leadership” in repudiating the CCP’s totalitarian repression.

The Pottinger address will surely infuriate the thugs of the Communist Party. Like all bullies, they are good at dishing out incitement, but are hypersensitive about taking it. Here’s hoping President Trump will pile on with a Reaganesque “Evil Empire” speech of his own, perhaps like Matt Pottinger’s, with “Chinese characteristics.”

This is Frank Gaffney.