Real Clear World featured “Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee?” by Jacqueline Deal and Michael Lucci, where they highlight the numerous organizations that signed a letter opposing the China Select Committee despite their bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations.
In their op-ed, Jacqueline and Michael wrote:
Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political warfare upon the United States demanded a response, and the Select Committee met the moment.
It’s curious, then, that more than 50 organizations publicly opposed Congress’ reauthorization of the highly effective committee. Closer scrutiny reveals what unites many of the “leading civil society organizations” that oppose the Select Committee: shared funding sources along with CCP ties and talking points.
The Asian Americans for Advancing Justice (AAAJ) letter leads with the race card, echoing the CCP’s preferred talking points. The AAAJ accused the Select Committee of “perpetuating…an adversarial framework and pouring…fuel on existing racial animus.” The letter mirrors an August 2023 op-ed published by a CCP mouthpiece claiming the committee “fuels racism” and “fosters anti-China and anti-Asian hate crimes.” Renewing the committee, the AAAJ claimed, would lead to “discrimination and racial profiling” and promote an “adversarial framework.”
Here’s the reality: no organization on the globe leverages racial animosity quite like the CCP itself. Nor does any organization so viciously target Asian Americans, especially the Chinese diaspora community. The CCP deals in racist tropes, runs an ethnostate, and is conducting a genocide against Uyghurs. The Chinese people, tragically, are the CCP’s first and greatest victims, both within China and in diaspora communities. At least 45 million Chinese starved during the Great Leap Forward famine, and another 1.5-2 million were killed or starved during the Cultural Revolution. Thousands were mowed down during the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Party-State executes political prisoners by organ procurement for profit. Today’s Chinese citizen endures the most highly sophisticated surveillance state in world history. The CCP even exports its repression to America’s shores through systemic targeting of the Chinese diaspora.
Read the full version of “Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee?” at Real Clear World.
