Don’t let enablers of Chinese Communist Party repression do business here

To his credit, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday announced sanctions the U.S. government is taking to punish the Chinese Communist Party for what Mr. Pompeo called its “horrific and systematic abuses” of Uighur Muslims and other minorities in the western region called Xinjiang.

What is being done to the Uighurs, however, is but an extreme example of the CCP’s abuse of vast numbers of other Chinese – including Christians, Tibetans, Falun Gong, political dissidents, etc. That fate is now impending for the people of Hong Kong, too.

This level of repression is being enabled by Beijing’s so-called “social credit system.” This Orwellian, real-time surveillance apparatus combines cameras everywhere, facial recognition and data mining. It’s made possible by a “Communist Chinese military company” called Hikvision that is currently allowed to do business and raise capital in this country.

That must end, too.

This is Frank Gaffney.