The Hawaiian island of Oahu is home to the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Ordinarily, it’s a bustling place. In this time of pandemic disease, government shutdown and social distancing, however, it is reportedly eerily quiet – a  symptom of our nation’s preoccupation with the myriad domestic crises brought on by the one foreign threat we perceive at the moment: the Chinese virus.

But experienced national security professionals are warning that the Chinese Communist Party may regard this moment as an ideal one for lashing out, perhaps by invading Taiwan. It has been preparing for such an ambitious operation for years with the deployment nearby of immense amounts of military gear, including advanced ballistic missiles, aircraft and ships.

The PRC is indisputably behaving increasingly provocatively towards Taiwan – and towards us. If we want peace, we better prepare for war with Communist China.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Chinese Communist Party is doubling down on its effort to deflect blame for the global pandemic that began in Wuhan late last year. The CCP has immense resources for planting and disseminating falsehoods like the charge that the virus actually was brought there by US Army personnel participating in military games in that city in October.

Unfortunately, China’s Communists can count on American partisans to help them amplify their propaganda. Take, for example, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who recently dubbed the so-called COVID-19 outbreak the “Trump Pandemic.”

The Communists in China and their friends aren’t just lying about the provenance of this virus. They’re concealing its current status in China. For example, the Party insists not one member of its military has been infected. Really?

A new moniker is making the rounds: “The CCP Virus.”

Works for me.

This is Frank Gaffney.

When influential globalists met last October for their “Event 201” table-top exercise, they anticipated that a coronavirus pandemic would promote their favorite cause: one-world governance.

An early victim of the Chinese-induced pandemic, however, appears to be the prototype and chief advocate for the transnational enterprise: the European Union. Central to the EU’s efforts to diminish and ultimately destroy the identity and sovereignty of its member states was the elimination of the Union’s internal borders.

But, in response to the Chinese virus, nation after nation in Europe – including Germany, the so-called Schengen zone’s most aggressive champion – have reinstituted and closed their borders. More of them may ultimately follow Britain in exiting from Brussels’ union.

To be determined is whether Communist China – whose personnel participated in Event 201 – will succeed in translating today’s pandemic into momentum towards its preferred world government under Beijing’s dominion.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, the White House press corps asserted that it is “racist” for President Trump to say the novel coronavirus originated in China. Not only is such criticism counter-factual. It actually reinforces what must now be recognized as enemy propaganda.

After all, the Chinese Communist Party is no longer hiding its determination to supplant and, if necessary, defeat our nation as the world’s preeminent power. But the Party is doing everything it can to blame us for the deadly pandemic that originated in Wuhan and is now wreaking havoc globally.

Britain’s University of Southampton estimates that 95% of the damage done by the Chinese virus could have been avoided if the Communist Party had not wasted three weeks lying about its outbreak. Not only must Xi Jinping and Company be held responsible for such outrageous misconduct. They should be financially penalized for it.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Democratic operatives have insisted for much of Donald Trump’s presidency that “No one is above the law.” It’s one of their more cynically hypocritical lines of attack against him, since they clearly don’t mean that the rule of law should apply to their partisans, too.

Take, for instance, Hillary Clinton and her long-running – and thus far successful – efforts to ensure that she and her entourage are not held to the same standards and statutes that apply to everybody else. To that end, the former Secretary of State is frantically trying to overturn a federal judge’s order that she must be deposed by Judicial Watch about her illegal email server and its serial compromises of national security secrets.

The question occurs: Why on earth are the Trump administration’s Justice and State Departments helping Hillary get preferential, instead of equal, treatment under the law?

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Amidst Wall Street’s continuing free-fall and the nation’s struggle to adapt to social distancing, it’s important to bear in mind how we got here. A helpful online resource is China Uncensored’s YouTube channel.

Host Chris Chappell’s latest video identifies eight steps the Chinese Communist Party has utilized to manage and then “spin” the coronavirus that was unleashed worldwide from its original, and still worst hot zone in Wuhan. They include the initial, official denials of the outbreak and subsequent cover-up that contributed enormously to the pandemic’s spread, and subsequent efforts to boast about the Party’s totalitarian efforts suppress it – and its people. We’re supposed to believe that communism is a cure for coronavirus.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo diplomatically but sternly repudiated the latest Chinese gambit – blaming us for the “Wuhan virus.” Such propaganda adds deep insult to tremendous injury.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Socialism is a bigger threat than the coronavirus. And the Wuhan virus has the potential greatly to accelerate the globalists’ efforts to spread their socialist political agenda at the expense of both public health and national sovereignty. Remember, they believe a crisis should never go to waste.

Video is circulating on the Internet from an exercise dubbed Event 201 conducted in October 2019. Its sponsors and participants included such globalist powerhouses as: the Bloomberg-backed Johns Hopkins University, the Davos World Economic Forum, the Gates, Rockefeller and UN Foundations, the World Bank, the CIA and the U.S. and Chinese Centers for Disease Control. They talk on tape about exploiting a pandemic to fund and build global governance.

We must not allow the present crisis to undermine our national sovereignty and promote socialism. Unfortunately, the globalists clearly disagree.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Arguably, the best article published since we learned of the coronavirus outbreak last January appeared in today’s Washington Post. Columnist Josh Rogin called Wall Street’s practice of using passive index funds to insinuate problematic Chinese companies into our capital markets “an even bigger financial threat” than the Wuhan virus.

Rogin cites President Trump’s National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, as stating recently: “I don’t see why we should be underwriting the Chinese defense industry.” Ditto, one might add, why finance PRC companies that help Beijing repress its people, colonize nations around the world or dominate space?

Rogin’s warning comes as the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan is poised to compel servicemen and women, Members of Congress and other government employees to start investing in such Chinese corporations. We must curb both the threat of the Wuhan virus and of indexes that invest in our enemies.

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump addressed the nation last night with an update about the state of the Wuhan flu and his administration’s various initiatives aimed at minimizing its public health and economic impact in this country.

It was a sober speech, clearly aimed at striking a difficult balance between conveying bad news – notably, the pandemic’s spread to continental Europe and, therefore, the need to suspend most air travel from there – with a mix of calming perspective and resolve.

Mr. Trump announced several initiatives aimed at mitigating the hardships being experienced by growing numbers of Americans and their businesses as a result of quarantines, social distancing and other disruptions. Of these, the most promising and least susceptible to abuse – or conversion into some sort of new, permanent and unaffordable entitlement – is a payroll tax cut or tax holiday.

Let’s pray these steps actually help.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, the UN Security Council endorsed the U.S. deal with the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” a.k.a. the Taliban. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani decided to begin releasing Taliban prisoners. What could possibly go wrong?

The answer is plenty. Our preoccupation with the Wuhan Flu may obscure another danger, namely that the agreement regarding Afghanistan’s future will unleash a renewed outbreak of another virulent pandemic: Sharia-supremacism.

A troubling comparison by Stephen Young of the Afghan deal with the one that sealed the fate of South Vietnam suggests the Taliban could well use it to retake all of Afghanistan, encouraging jihadists the world over to believe that they, too, can defeat the United States.

We need an insurance policy with volunteer veterans helping the Afghan military and a proven counter-insurgency program that would enable Afghans to defend themselves and their villages against a resurgent Taliban.

This is Frank Gaffney.