America’s leadership has been willfully blind to the true nature of the Chinese communist threat, and the most important battleground isn’t the military front—It’s ideological, says John Lenczowski, the founder and chancellor of The Institute of World Politics.
“The Chinese have 600 front organizations operating in the United States today trying to influence all sorts of segments of our society,” Lenczowski told our colleague Jan Jekielek, in a recent American Thought Leaders episode.
America needs to counterattack. Lenczowski, the principal Soviet affairs advisor to President Ronald Reagan, argues America should set up a Manhattan Project-type effort to break down China’s internet blockade, restrict the entry of Chinese intelligence collectors into the United States, and support Chinese dissident movements.