Rep. Scott Perry: US Should Designate the CCP as a ‘Transnational Criminal Organization’

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

“We need to quit this viewpoint that they’re a strategic competitor. China and the Communist Party [see] the United States of America as their enemy. And they treat us as such. It’s time we start acting like there’s an enemy out there,” says Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, we sat down with Perry to discuss Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan, the Chinese regime’s threats to shoot down her plane, how Beijing is exploiting America’s strategic weaknesses, and what holding the Chinese regime to account would actually look like.

Perry argues that the United States should “classify and characterize the Chinese Communist Party as a transnational criminal organization.”

“If you look at the evidence, everything that they do qualifies them for that,” Perry says.

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0:00.0	The Communist Party of China and the state media made the calculation that there was no downside,
0:05.5	essentially, the threatening. You're going to shoot down the speaker of the House of the United
0:08.8	States of America, which is essentially what is an act of war. Today is the town of Congressman
0:14.0	Scott Perry, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. We need to quit this viewpoint that
0:19.2	there is strategic competitor. China and the Communist Party sees the United States of America as
0:24.8	their enemy and they treat us as such. It's time we start acting like there's an enemy out there.
0:37.6	We discuss the speaker Pelosi's recent trip to Taiwan, how Beijing is exploiting America's
0:42.7	strategic weaknesses and what holding the Chinese Communist Party to account would actually look like.
0:48.7	We could classify and characterize the Chinese Communist Party as a transnational criminal organization.
0:54.4	If you look at the evidence, everything that they do qualifies them for that.
0:59.2	The China's ramp at that intellectual property is real. There are about a thousand open
1:05.0	intellectual property cases with the FBI. This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanyu Kelly.
1:11.9	Congressman Scott Perry, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:15.4	It is great to be with you and of course the subject could not be more appropriate at this moment.
1:22.0	No, absolutely and it's kind of high time. Obviously I've been following your career and what you
1:27.7	know, you're thinking about China for years now. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi,
1:34.2	landed in Taiwan, met the highest level officials in Taiwan. The Taiwanese were thrilled that she was
1:43.1	there, met with mixed reactions and very, very strong, at least verbal reactions from the Chinese
1:53.1	regime. So what's your take? So my take is that I'm happy that America is representing itself
1:59.8	in Taiwan and meeting with the leadership in Taiwan. I'm invigorated that China sees that.
2:08.4	Look, everybody knows I'm not a big fan of the Speaker or the Speaker's policies. Regardless,
2:13.6	the Speaker speaks for the United States of America and the Speaker went to Taiwan. That's a big deal.
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