Propaganda analysis: Official translation of Xi Jinping’s speech toned down extremism against West

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / August 10, 2021. Analyzing official translations of Chinese regime leader speeches, and comparing them with the original in Mandarin, offer insights into Beijing’s plans and intentions. Analysis of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s landmark centennial speech last month underscores that the regime is preparing the country … Read more

Poll: Almost two-thirds of Americans believe China should pay pandemic reparations

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / July 13, 2021. – Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Chinese regime should pay reparations for the destruction caused by the human coronavirus pandemic, according to a TIPP Poll conducted for the Center for Security Policy. That number rises from 63 percent to 78 percent … Read more

Zampolits of wokeness

J Michael Waller / American Greatness / June 29, 2021. Wokeness might do to the American military what no foreign enemy ever could: Fracture the world’s greatest armed forces from within, through divisive political indoctrination and controls. Wokeness—extreme ideological intolerance of opposing views and the imposition of life-destroying punishments for the insufficiently woke—is organized fratricide.  … Read more

A woke CIA is a broke CIA

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / June 11, 2021. Bugs and bunnies. That’s what House Intelligence Committee Republican members used to call the CIA’s global warming “analysis” almost two decades ago. So today’s wokeness at the CIA, while shocking, isn’t surprising. It’s the logical product of a continuum that’s been gurgling through … Read more

As crises worsen in Ukraine and Taiwan, China seeks to divide NATO

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 12, 2021 – With Russia preparing to attack Ukraine again and China becoming more aggressive about conquering Taiwan, Chinese Communist Party strategists are openly discussing how to divide the NATO alliance. Key takeaways China seeks to co-opt NATO through strategic cooperation. China seeks to divide … Read more

Chinese regime analyst sees Biden’s DoD China Task Force as ‘weak’

By J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 9, 2021 – The Pentagon’s new China Task Force is “weak,” with Biden’s policy toward China in such disarray that Beijing can take actions to “shape” it, according to a Chinese Communist Party analysis. Key takeaways “… the composition of the group is weak.” … Read more

Fighting the progs: Waller and a colleague explain why, as college students, they joined up with the Nicaraguan Contras

After more than 35 years, the Center for Security Policy‘s J. Michael Waller spoke publicly about why he joined up with the Nicaraguan Contras in 1984. The Center for Security Policy’s Senior Analyst for Strategy and Michael Johns were college students at the time, editors of their respective newspapers at the George Washington University and … Read more

House Armed Services Committee leaders agree: Military around US Capitol ‘not warranted’ now

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / March 12, 2021 – The militarized presence around the US Capitol is “not warranted” any more due to lack of a credible threat, the chairman and ranking member of the House Armed Security Committee said in a joint statement. Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Mike Rogers … Read more

Chinese journalist details Beijing’s strategy to conquer Hong Kong and purge it of its people

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / February 25, 2021 – The Chinese regime has a strategic plan to conquer Hong Kong and purging it of any citizens who oppose the Communist Party. “The Chinese Communist Party is implementing a strategic plan to destroy Hong Kong through a psychological warfare campaign against the … Read more

Pelosi has blocked answers to questions about lack of security at Capitol on January 6

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / February 16, 2021 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself in a tight spot as more lawmakers question why she has not information about her apparent refusal to permit requested security to defend the US Capitol on January 6. Those questions parallel observations that the Center … Read more