The CCP is admired by at least a segment of the American elite.

Perhaps some of the 400 who were at that dinner admire the CCP for its efficiency is Bill

Gates has said.

In this episode, Bradley Thayer exposes the workings of the Chinese regime's political and ideological

warfare.

He's the director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy and author of Understanding

the China Threat.

What makes TikTok a particularly potent weapon?

What you have done is just given the Communist Party of China access to you and the ability

to influence you and elections, the ability to influence you in your political behavior

and your beliefs, and how you see the rest of the world.

And how should the US approach the Chinese regime?

If we recognize the nature of the threat and its tremendous vulnerabilities and exploit

those vulnerabilities, we can defeat them just as we did the Soviet Union.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janie Kelley.

Dr. Bradley Thayer, it's such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

It's my pleasure to join you.

For the last few years, we've been exposed to a lot of very, very good information.

I'm talking about the American public, yet I'm not convinced that we're behaving as a

society.

And when I say that, I'm talking about the West, not just the US, but we're not really

behaving in a way that would suggest that there's a serious threat.

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