{"id":14902,"date":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/new-group-launches-to-combat-chinese-communist-party-influence-across-us-poses-a-major-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:47:44","slug":"new-group-launches-to-combat-chinese-communist-party-influence-across-us-poses-a-major-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/new-group-launches-to-combat-chinese-communist-party-influence-across-us-poses-a-major-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"New group launches to combat Chinese Communist Party influence across US: \u2018Poses a major threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A new group is set to launch Wednesday to combat\u00a0Chinese Communist Party\u00a0(CCP) influence in the United States, Fox News Digital has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">State Armor, a nonprofit organization, will concentrate on global security threats and will begin by working to expose \u2018malign CCP influence operations\u2019 to the public and lawmakers nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018States are now on the front lines against foreign adversaries. In fact, for years states have been targeted by well-resourced, technologically sophisticated foreign adversaries, particularly communist China,\u2019 State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci told Fox News Digital in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Chinese Communist Party is engaged in a broad effort to supplant the United States so it can rewrite global norms according to its authoritarian model,\u2019 Lucci said. \u2018To achieve its goals, the CCP aggressively pursues a strategy to gain economic leverage over state and local governments, to make states dependent on their technologies, and to suppress the First Amendment-protected speech of Chinese dissidents within America.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>State Armor\u00a0will focus on four primary areas to position itself as a leading research and educational source for state and local governments, including protecting critical infrastructure, building what it calls \u2018supply chains of freedom,\u2019 or sourcing products from free nations, stopping influence operations and preparing state supply chains if China were to invade Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group will work to mobilize a network ranging from citizens to experts to \u2018aid states in developing and implementing comprehensive, common sense, and bipartisan solutions to protect themselves from what is widely regarded as a generation-defining foreign threat.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to State Armor, they are currently working on passing several\u00a0pieces of legislation\u00a0or executive orders in more than 12 states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018State Armor is going to bring awareness and ready-for-action plans to push counter-China policies that many of our state leaders know need to get done, but just aren\u2019t sure where to start,\u2019 former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s no secret the Chinese Communist Party poses a major threat to the American way of life, but until now there hasn\u2019t been a group solely focused on taking on Communist China at the state level,\u2019 O\u2019Brien added. \u2018This issue is not partisan. States want to take action; State Armor will be there to show them how.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, contained within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, released a report in 2022 on how the CCP is employing a strategy with state and local governments, including growing support for their interests among state and local leaders and leveraging the connections \u2018to pressure Washington for policies friendlier to Beijing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The [People\u2019s Republic of China] understands U.S. state and local leaders enjoy a degree of independence from Washington and may seek to use them as proxies to advocate for national U.S. policies Beijing desires, including improved U.S. economic cooperation with China, and reduced U.S. criticism of China\u2019s policies towards Taiwan, Tibetans, Uyghurs, pro-democracy activists, and others,\u2019\u00a0the report\u00a0states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State Armor will move to combat such operations and has received support from individuals in the\u00a0security realm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alex Gray, a former deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, who is now the CEO of American Global Strategies LLC, is one individual who will throw his weight behind the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018U.S. states are on the front line of the long-term competition between the United States and the [People\u2019s Republic of China] and a responsible American strategy requires proactive preparation at the state level,\u2019 Gray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018State Armor will provide the organizing power needed at the state level to spur that preparation and address the dangers of Chinese Communist Party influence and access in the states. The time for action is here, and State Armor will be critical in leading the way.\u2019<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new group is set to launch Wednesday to combat\u00a0Chinese Communist Party\u00a0(CCP) influence in the United States, Fox News Digital has learned. State Armor, a nonprofit organization, will concentrate on global security threats and will begin by working to expose \u2018malign CCP influence operations\u2019 to the public and lawmakers nationwide.\u00a0 \u2018States are now on the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}