New Epoch Times Documentary on CCP Threat Screened at The Heritage Foundation

Award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Philipp speaks during a panel discussion for the first screening of the Epoch Times documentary “The Final War—A 100-Year Plot to Defeat America” at The Heritage Foundation in Washington on Oct. 13, 2022. Chen Lei/NTD

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses the biggest existential threat to the United States, yet few Americans are aware of that threat, according to a new documentary.

The latest Epoch Times investigative film “The Final War—A 100-Year Plot to Defeat America” seeks to expose the hidden stories of U.S.–China relations over the past seven decades. The film was screened for the first time on Oct. 13 at an event sponsored by The Heritage Foundation in Washington.

The documentary follows Epoch Times award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Philipp and retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding on their journey of “awakening” to the CCP’s secret war on the United States.

“The Final War” traces the origins of the CCP and its 100-year plan and demonstrates how the Communist leadership has continually advanced its little-known agenda through skillful deception.

After combing through a trove of in-depth data and conducting interviews with senior CCP insiders, the China investigative team at The Epoch Times has shown that the regime in Beijing has been carrying out its strategy to destabilize the United States since it came into power in 1949.

“The goal of this documentary is to relate to everybody the full picture of what’s happening beneath the surface in the Chinese Communist Party,” Philipp told attendees of the event.

While the documentary has been in the works for two years, it’s based on more than a decade of research and the collection of information from sources inside China, he said.

The documentary was created by the same team that produced the 2020 viral hit “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus,” which featured internal Party whistleblowers, leading experts, and former U.S.–China policy officials.

Speaking at a panel discussion following the screening of “The Final War,” Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump, commended the film for its professionalism and high quality.

Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump, speaks during a panel discussion for the first screening of the new Epoch Times documentary “The Final War—A 100-Year Plot to Defeat America” at The Heritage Foundation in Washington on Oct. 13, 2022. Chen Lei/NTD

“This film will be important in terms of messaging the existential threat that the Chinese Communist Party is to this country,” Navarro said.

‘A Hybrid Warfare’

The documentary, written and directed by Katherine Hu, seeks to convey that the CCP is no longer far from fulfilling its decades-long goal and that the United States can’t afford to lose “a war between justice and evil, freedom and communism.”

While many people are focused on China’s massive and rapid military expansion, a hybrid warfare is currently underway, according to Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners and one of the interviewees in the documentary

Fleming, who’s an expert on U.S.–China security and counterintelligence, believes that there are more than 100 types of hybrid warfare, including the shipping to the United States from China of fentanyl, which is the No. 1 cause of death for Americans aged between 18 and 45.

“This is World War III. It’s 1939 all over again,” Fleming said during the panel discussion.

He also cited China-owned TikTok as an example, describing it as “a weaponized military application in the hands of our children.”

“When you’re at war, there is no left, there is no right. There is no black person, there is no white person,“ Fleming said. ”We’re all in this together.”

Another panelist, Sean Lin, a veteran who served as a U.S. Army microbiologist and a survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, believes that Americans vastly underestimate the Communist Party’s strength and influence.

The documentary provides a comprehensive chronicle of the tactics the CCP has executed for decades, Lin told The Epoch Times.

As someone who was born and raised in China, Lin said he hoped the film could be subtitled in Chinese so that not only Americans but also Chinese people could learn the truth about the CCP.

‘Everybody Needs to Watch It’

The documentary has six chapters, the first two discussing the CCP’s role in recent global conflicts and how the regime weaponized the global COVID-19 pandemic. The third and fourth chapters delve into the CCP’s 100-year plan and how it has fed the West a carefully crafted mirage. Chapter 5 describes how the regime has infiltrated, divided, and subverted U.S. society. The final chapter explores the tools at our disposal to confront the CCP threat and safeguard America’s security, values, and freedom.

“The documentary was extremely factually accurate; it was powerful,” Nazak Nikakhtar, one of the viewers, who previously served as assistant secretary for industry and analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce, told The Epoch Times.

“And it’s a truth that’s been hidden for a long time that finally, some good people made the effort to put in the time and put in the detailed research to expose these threats that we’ve ignored for a long time. I hope it’s not too late, but everybody needs to watch it.”

A panel discussion for the first screening of The Epoch Times's documentary “The Final War—A 100-Year Plot to Defeat America” at The Heritage Foundation in Washington on Oct. 13, 2022. Chen Lei/NTD

“The documentary’s deep understanding of the history of China is very apparent,” said Anders Corr, a China expert, principal at Corr Analytics, and author of “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony.”

Corr, who’s also a contributor at The Epoch Times, said the film’s “expertise on the history of China is very apparent in terms of understanding not only the Chinese Communist Party as a black box but the personalities within the party that are driving this hegemonic totalitarian, anti-American ambition.”

After watching the film, Thomas Cromwell, publisher and author of the book “The Triumph of Good,” said the “documentary was very informative.”

“It went into so much depth about the background behind the strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the 100-year marathon,” Cromwell said.

The film also highlights the fact that, unlike in the case of the Soviet Union, “the West has supported China and given it the money, the wherewithal to compete with us,” he said. “It’s really our responsibility and that’s the thing that we can address.”