In their op-ed, “America’s November Crash Course in Chinese Hybrid Warfare,” Michael Lucci and Jacqueline Deal highlight how China is waging a hybrid war against the United States by embedding influence and strategic assets through infiltration of our real estate, universities, and civil society organizations to achieve its military objectives. They call on state and federal leaders to strengthen defense against China’s whole-of-society threat.
In their joint op-ed, Lucci and Deal write:
“Last year, the House Select Committee on the CCP exposed the Chinese government’s role as the “prime mover” in underwriting America’s fentanyl crisis, the leading cause of death for military-age Americans. This month, three new revelations underscore China’s success in infiltrating our real estate, universities, and civil society organizations to achieve their military objectives.
First, the Daily Caller’s Philip Lenczycki uncovered that a Chinese-Canadian couple linked to CCP intelligence owns a trailer park abutting Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri. Whiteman hosts America’s entire B-2 stealth fleet – the same bombers whose June bombing run ruined Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The trailer park is a perfect asset from which to collect intelligence or launch sabotage strikes. Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” comes to mind, wherein drones launched from pre-positioned trucks to attack airfields deep inside Russia. Missouri’s legislature must scale up defenses as nearby Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska have already done, and the federal government should deploy a task force to investigate and root out China’s military pre-positioning across American real estate. (RELATED: Trump Assembles Seemingly Motley Crew Of Allies To Stop China From Becoming World’s #1 Power)
Next, University of Michigan-based Chinese researcher Yunqing Jian pled “guilty” to charges of smuggling a biological pathogen into the U.S. The fungus, fusarium graminearum, wipes out wheat, barley, maize and rice and causes vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock. Ill-advised academic partnerships with Communist China allow CCP-affiliated researchers to smuggle diseases into America while exfiltrating intellectual property from our campuses.”
Read the full article “America’s November Crash Course in Chinese Hybrid Warfare” at The Daily Caller.
