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 |  Subject: Bannon: US elites ignore ‘the enslavement of the Chinese people’  Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:13 am | |
| President Donald Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon has issued a blistering condemnation of McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs and an advocacy group representing some of the most prominent Chinese Americans, as he stepped up his rhetoric about the need for Washington to confront China.
Speaking on Tuesday at a Washington event organized by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, or CPDC – which also featured Senator Ted Cruz and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich – Bannon, the founder of alt-right site Breitbart, excoriated groups that have promoted business and cultural ties with China.
These ties, the former White House chief strategist said, have assisted efforts by the Communist Party of China to dismantle an international order of the “nation-state on the shoulders of a free citizenry” forged centuries ago in the West.
"All the McKinsey guys, all the Booz Allen [Hamilton] guys, all of the law firms, all of the accounting firms, Goldman Sachs, my old firm, all of the commercial banks, all of them” know about the Chinese government’s policies towards Uygurs and Christians and other religious minorities, and “the enslavement of the Chinese people,” Bannon said.
The effort to stop China’s advance, as the United States did with the Soviet Union, “is the defining event of our time,” Bannon added.
“One hundred years from now, this is what they’re going to remember us for, and I guarantee you that we’re going to identify those members of the elite that sold us out and continue to sell out the American people and sell out the Chinese people.”
Booz Allen Hamilton said it does no business in China. McKinsey and Goldman Sachs did not immediately respond to queries sent about Bannon’s comments outside of regular business hours.
The CPDC was launched to facilitate “public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers” posed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, the group said in an announcement last month.
Wednesday’s event in Washington was the first in a series of conferences planned by the group to raise awareness of its cause, the objectives of which include an abandonment of the Trump administration’s efforts to strike a deal that will end the US-China trade war that started last year.
The CPDC seeks to amplify sources of concern to the US from China, including barriers to the country’s domestic markets, China’s increasing influence in next-gen 5G mobile tech, and that an increasing prowess in the Chinese military.
“Our vulnerability in space is profound,” said Cruz. “The Chinese are investing billions in offensive weaponry in space... It’s all fine and good to have a fifth-generation fighter aircraft, but do you know how to land it if GPS goes down?
“We need to be investing far more vigorously in defending space” to counter China’s eventual ability to jam US satellites, Cruz added.
Bannon also hit out at the Committee of 100, a Chinese-American advocacy group that includes Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the architect I.M. Pei.
“The Committee of 100, this highfalutin’ group of the best of the best,” Bannon said. “They put out a press release on Sunday... and guess what [they say] the problem is… this is about racial profiling. Tell that to the Chinese people that are enslaved.”
Also known as C100, the group had said in its press release that the group was “compelled to stand up and speak out against the racial profiling that has become increasingly common in the United States where Chinese Americans are being targeted as potential traitors, spies and agents of foreign influence.”
“Civil rights for Chinese Americans are about American ideals,” said Frank Wu, the C100’s chairman, in response to Bannon’s comments.
“Concerns about China and how it has set up its society are a different issue. Due process for Chinese Americans should depend on American principles, not government policies in China.”
The singling out of particular groups as threats to American security is in the CPDC’s DNA. The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) has existed in two previous incarnations as a bulwark against the influence of the Soviet Union in the US.
The CPDC’s vice-chairman Frank Gaffney, who was a defense adviser to former president Ronald Reagan, said the committee was planning more conferences to amplify its concerns about China, and planned to invite leading figures in the Democratic Party including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/steve-bannon-hits-out-goldman-sachs-mckinsey-committee-100-china/article/3005546
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