CPDC Webinar on CCP Plots on US Campuses

The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), a Washington-based think tank, holds a webinar at 1 p.m. ET on May 30 titled “The CCP’s Campus Crusade: The Enemy Within the U.S. Academy” to discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) efforts on U.S. campuses to promote its ideology and agenda.

Moderator: Frank Gaffney, president, Institute for the American Future; vice chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; and Host of “Securing America” on America’s Voice Network

Karen Siegemund, PhD, president, the American Freedom Alliance; former teacher at the K-12 and university levels; former Cold War anti-submarine warfare consultant for the U.S. Navy

Topic: “’Give Me the Children’: The Totalitarians’ Weaponization of Education”

Trevor Loudon, author and filmmaker, “The Enemies Within” and “The Enemies Within the Church”; “Feinstein’s Spy: Russell Lowe and San Francisco’s Pro-China Left,” “Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism,” “Security Risk Senators,” “House UnAmericans,” “Kamala Harris’s Communist Roots” with a bonus section, “Tim Walz Exposed;” and contributor, The Epoch Times

Topic: “The Enemies within the Schools: From Early Childhood to Grad School and Everything in Between”

Stan Ridgely, Ph.D., clinical professor of management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business; author, “DDEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education” and “Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities”

Topic: “The Radicalization of America’s Campuses: A Sitrep from the Frontlines”

Dan Currell, J.D., former deputy under secretary and senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Education (2018 to 2021); former executive director at the Corporate Executive Board and former managing director at AdvanceLaw

Topic: “The CCP on U.S. Campuses: Findings of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party”

Xi Van Fleet, foreign-born American patriot, a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China, freedom fighter; author, “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning”

Topic: “The Role of Education in Mao’s America: Cultural Revolution in Our Schools”

Ian Oxnevad, Ph.D., senior fellow of foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars; 2023 report author, “China and Our Children” examining how the Chinese Communist Party uses language as a tool of asymmetric warfare and its deployed effects in the United States

Topic: “The CCP’s Influence Operations in the Academy: Confucius Institutes and Beyond” (Invited.)

John Lenczowski, Ph.D., founder, president emeritus, and chancellor of The Institute of World Politics; former special adviser for the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of European Affairs (1981 to 1983); former director of European and Soviet affairs in Reagan’s National Security Council (1983-1987); author, “Full-Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy” (2011) among other titles

Topic: “Fighting Back in the Academy: The Challenges Facing Pro-America Academic Institutions and the Struggle for Freedom”