Thank you to our friends at the Heritage Foundation for co-hosting this live conversation on the CCP's growing influence operations inside the United States!

Guests:

Bryan Burack | The Heritage Foundation

Brian Cavanaugh | American Global Strategies

Jacqueline Deal | Long Term Strategy Group

Michele Exner | Parents Defending Education

Host:

Carrie Filipetti | The Vandenberg Coalition

The rise of China isn’t just a foreign concern. Over the last few years, there have been multiple incidents of Chinese attacks against our homeland, from the 2023 spy balloon, to inciting the fentanyl crisis, to influencing our students and children in schools and online. What are the CCP’s political, economic, and diplomatic aims against the United States? How does Chinese soft power influence American culture, education, and media? How is U.S. national security compromised by China’s influence operations on America's homeland? Addressing these questions requires a multidisciplinary approach, involving experts from various domains in the complex U.S.-Chinese relationship. Amid a period of heightened U.S.-Chinese relations, speakers will dissect the litany of China’s influence operations in the United States and the importance of defending American national security at a time of China’s malign campaign for global dominance.

In this series, the Vandenberg Coalition shifts the focus beyond the Indo-Pacific and into various regions around the world where the Chinese Communist Party continues to threaten American interests. Each episode in the series discusses China’s growing influence in a given region, how it measures against American influence, how to define our relationship with the region in light of competing priorities, and what America can and should be doing to better protect and advance our national interests.

In this installment of “Countering Chinese Communist Party Influence Around the World,” leading experts discuss China’s growing influence in multilateral organizations. Executive Director of The Vandenberg Coalition Carrie Filipetti speaks with former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and the U.S. Representative at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Kelley Currie and former Chief of Staff to U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nikki R. Haley Morgan Viña, who outline ways for the United States to effectively counter the CCP while strengthening our leadership role on the global stage.

In this series, the Vandenberg Coalition shifts the focus beyond the Indo-Pacific and into various regions around the world where the Chinese Communist Party continues to threaten American interests. Each episode in the series discusses China’s growing influence in a given region, how it measures against American influence, how to define our relationship with the region in light of competing priorities, and what America can and should be doing to better protect and advance our national interests.

00:00:00 Opening by TVC Executive Director Carrie Filipetti

00:01:31 Mechanisms for China’s engagement at the United Nations

00:03:33 CCP’s objectives in the international system

00:09:37 China on the offense: successes at the United Nations

00:18:10 Discrepancy in UN funding contributions between the U.S. and China

00:20:23 China’s takeover of the World Health Organization

00:26:18 Need for strategic reform of the American role in the United Nations

00:34:37 Criticism of the UN’s inherent value in promoting American interests

00:39:44 U.S.-China competition in the UN Human Rights Council

00:49:28 China’s alliance-building efforts to supplant U.S.-led multilateral organizations

00:51:54 Biden’s inability to leverage American power in international institutions

00:56:29 Closing by TVC Executive Director Carrie Filipetti

In this installment of “Countering Chinese Communist Party Influence

Around the World,” leading experts discuss China’s growing influence in

the Middle East. Vandenberg Coalition Executive Director Carrie

Filipetti speaks with Associate Professor of National Security Strategy

at the National War College Dr. Dawn Murphy, Managing Director and

Lane-Swig Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Michael Singh, and Craig Singleton, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for

Defense of Democracies to discuss China’s growing influence in the

Middle East.

In this series, the Vandenberg Coalition shifts the focus beyond the

Indo-Pacific and into various regions around the world where the Chinese

Communist Party continues to threaten American interests. Each episode

in the series discusses China’s growing influence in a given region, how

it measures against American influence, how to define our relationship

with the region in light of competing priorities, and what America can

and should be doing to better protect and advance our national

interests.

00:00:00 Opening by TVC Executive Director Carrie Filipetti

00:01:36 China’s response to Hamas’ attacks & the ensuing war in Gaza

00:05:59 China’s strategic loss of Israel after October 7th

00:08:17 CCP objectives for regional influence & supplanting U.S. role in the Middle East

00:15:20 Future of the Israeli-China relationship

00:20:18 Discrepancy between internal & external CCP statements

00:23:55 America’s evolving strategic role in the Middle East

00:28:20 China’s perspective on the Abraham Accords & eroding leverage over Iran

00:36:24 Tripartite dynamic between Russia, China, & Iran

00:45:10 CCP amplification of antisemitism via TikTok

00:50:15 False binary between the United States & China

00:55:54 U.S. Chinese competition in the Middle East

01:00:55 Closing by TVC Executive Director Carrie Filipetti