By Newt Gingrich

The United States is close to being dominated by companies and wealthy individuals who are deeply indebted to – and afraid of – the Chinese Communist dictatorship.

I learned some of the depth of Chinese domination a few years ago when a former Bloomberg News reporter told me how their investigation into corruption in China was stopped when the Chinese dictatorship threatened to take out all the Bloomberg computers if they did not stop the investigation. Those computers are worth about a billion dollars a year in revenue. So, I was told Bloomberg opted for dollars over the truth. The bluntness and directness of the Chinese dictatorship and the meekness of a giant American company led by a billionaire then-mayor of New York sobered me.

Then, I much later learned that China had given millions to the University of Pennsylvania while that university was hosting a Biden Center – which focused on “diplomacy and global engagement.” All information about the donations and where they went are secret as most universities simply refuse to share the facts with their own government. They are functionally more pro-dictatorship than pro-democracy.

The Chinese Communist strategy for dominating America – and the arrogance with which they now discuss it publicly – was captured in a recent speech in Shanghai by Di Dongsheng, the vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China and vice director and secretary of the Center for Foreign Strategic Studies of China.

Every serious American who wants to make sure our economy, government, and future doesn’t belong to China should be watching this closely.

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