Despite China’s rapidly growing economy and engagement with the free world, the Chinese Communist Party remains firmly hostile to the liberal democracies of the West and has been overtly and covertly subverting the leadership and interests of the United States for decades, according to Greg Autry, who co-authored the 2011 book “Death by China: Confronting the Dragon.”
In a speech given on June 23, Autry said that he first became aware of Chinese regime’s brutal nature after a visit to China some years ago. Autry displayed a photo he took with several Chinese friends, one of which is a Chinese woman named Jennifer Zeng, whom he befriended during the trip and who was a Falun Gong practitioner. Zeng was later jailed, tortured, and separated from her family, all because the Chinese regime outlawed and persecuted her spiritual practice since 1999.
Autry said that the U.S. policy toward China since Richard Nixon’s rapprochement in the 1970s has always been defined by a persistent attempt to court China. According to Autry however, not only did this policy of appeasement fail to draw China into the U.S. orbit, it actually created a “Frankenstein” that remains fundamentally hostile to U.S. values and interests and is now turning the tables against the U.S.-led free world.
