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Here is my effort to combine several different strands of thinking about China. Thank you @EvansRyan202 for the opportunity: From Engagement to Rivalry: Tools to Compete with China via @TXNatSecReview tnsr.org/2018/08/from-e…
Peter Mattis
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Peter Mattis
@PLMattis
President @JamestownTweets Ex-@CECCgov @ChinaBriefJT . Co-author - Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer: amzn.to/2XwfUIq. Views still mine
United States
Joined May 2018
- "Regardless of your views on Trump, if you value democracy and human rights, some things are worse than giving the Trump administration a win. A victory for China in its trade conflict with the U.S. is now one of them."
- China takeover of Hong Kong could lead to U.S. sanctions -White House reut.rs/2AYbbWb
- One of the ways we know that Russia did not actually see NATO as a threat is that there are no fortifications, field supply depots, and other visible preparations along any Russian border with a NATO country. Not even when British tanks were deployed to the Baltics.Witkoff: "The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians."
00:00 - I’m taking this seriously because this argument is being used inside and outside gov’t., so this is going to be a thread. I care less about what direction policy goes (OK, I have preferences) than I care that the US approach is based in reality. 1/30
- One of the best articles I have seen written about Chinese espionage. China's spies are waging an intensifying espionage offensive against the United States. Does America have what it takes to stop them? @mikegiglio reports:
- Uyghurs holding pictures of their missing and detained loved ones at the @CECCgov annual report launch.
- Why is it so hard for people to understand that the PRC is not neutral and has picked a side? In the last two years, Beijing made a decision to push because we have let Beijing present clean hands. Beijing is about as neutral as the United States was in 1940-1941.The Chinese are vetoing this and Europe continues to listen.
- This is not what I expected my first op-ed to be after I left Capitol Hill, but it needed to be said. We need to do a better job of connecting CCP words & deeds across our analysis.
- Admit nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.The Chinese Ambassador @AmbCuiTiankai just called for an investigation in the United States by the WHO into whether the coronavirus outbreak originated here. Horrendous. @CNN
- In a busy week, I completely forgot what day it was: amazon.com/Chinese-Commun… Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer is now officially out. The intro gives a good analytic overview, but the goal was to make a lot of data available. No more mysticism about PRC intel.
- The indictment of Linda Sun, a former NY state gov't employee contains just the pertinent facts necessary to get to the charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the PRC. But I can't help but think more may come out. 1/n
- In case there is any doubt what this means, a United Front Work Department think tank says the solution to Hong Kong is Xinjiang: repression and reeducation to transform human nature to fit into a CCP-approved mold."The problems of #HongKong and that of terrorism have similar causes: lack of realistic economic opportunities and misguided ideology. Re: terrorism, China has shown the world a more effective and humane approach than that pursued by other countries." chinadaily.com.cn/global/2019-11…
