Senator Tom Cotton has a new book published called, “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China.”
Here’s the book description:
Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy. “
“As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’m often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no—it’s worse than you can imagine.”
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China is Tom Cotton’s provocative exposé about the gravest threat to American freedom.
The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Street, and most politicians can’t—or won’t—speak the truth about China. But Senator Cotton will, because America needs to know.
In this hard-hitting book, he reveals what others refuse to say, including:
- The inside story—drawn from his intelligence and national-security experience and knowledge—on how deeply the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America.
- How China persecutes Christians and commits genocide against religious and ethnic minorities.
- The alarming rise of China’s armed forces and nuclear arsenal, which will soon rival our own.
- The danger our children face from China’s influence on Hollywood, the NBA, TikTok, and so much more.
- How China lied, stole, and cheated its way to wealth while devastating America’s workers and businesses.
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China sounds the alarm about Communist China’s carefully crafted plans to defeat America in the coming decade—and what we must do to fight back.
Seven Things You Can’t Say about China: Insights from US Senator Tom Cotton (ALEC)
The Hudson Institute recently hosted US Senator Tom Cotton (AR) for a discussion on his book Seven Things You Can’t Say about China. The event focused on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in American society, industry, and government, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, when critics of China were often dismissed as hysterical or xenophobic.
In his book, Senator Cotton outlines the seven critical truths about China that are often suppressed:
- China is an evil empire;
- China is preparing for war;
- China is waging an economic world war;
- China has infiltrated our society;
- China has infiltrated our government;
- China is coming for our kids;
- China could win.
Cotton emphasized the severity of China’s threats, explaining that the situation is even worse than it appears. Citing China’s economic influence as its greatest weapon, an influence that the US has invited, he stressed that financial entanglement poses one of the greatest global risks.
The PRC’s multinational corporations and industrial tycoons are especially concerning. He warned that losing Taiwan to Communist China would be catastrophic, leading to an immediate global depression, stock market crashes, and worldwide nuclear proliferation as nations struggled to develop their own nuclear umbrellas.
He expressed concern about China’s control over US film narratives and commented on the infiltration of our media outlets with many receiving revenues from PRC-linked companies. He described China as a “techno-totalitarian” state, citing that over half of the world’s surveillance cameras are installed in China to monitor and control its own people.
The Battle for America’s Youth
Cotton discussed China’s use of social media and fentanyl to rot the United States from within. He detailed how TikTok’s algorithm targets American children:
- Girls are bombarded with pro-eating disorder content, leading to mental health issues.
- Boys are flooded with violent videos and pornography, some even promoting suicide.
He considers these algorithms a deliberate effort to destabilize American society and weaken America’s future generations, likening it to a modern “reverse Opium War”.
China has also deliberately funneled illicit fentanyl into the US, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. These chilling tactics undermine America without firing a single shot.
ALEC has published videos on the toll that the fentanyl epidemic has taken on our youth here and here and hosted a Women’s Caucus Roundtable at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, devoted to the harm that social media platforms owned and controlled by our adversaries inflict on America’s youth. ALEC model policy An Act Restraining State and Local Governmental Use of Mobile or Online Software Applications and Electronic Devices under Control of a Foreign Adversary aims to prohibit most use of applications tied to foreign adversaries on state and local government devices.
The Only Way to Win
Senator Cotton concluded with a stark warning: China’s global ambitions are real and accelerating, and the only way to win is to prevent China from achieving its objectives. He sounded the alarm for America to wake up to the economic, military, and threats to our social fabric posed by the CCP before it is too late. . . . (read more)
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The Chinese Communist Party’s economic warfare has granted it tremendous influence in American society, industry, and even government. Never was this more apparent than during the COVID-19 pandemic, when those who questioned the CCP’s conduct around the virus—and potential role in creating it—faced accusations of hysteria, xenophobia, and fearmongering.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) was one such voice. In his new book Seven Things You Can’t Say about China, he examines how the CCP threatens Americans—from its unprecedented military buildup to its role in the fentanyl trade—and how China uses its influence in media, academia, Wall Street, and Washington to silence critics.
Senator Cotton will join Hudson President and CEO John Walters to discuss the senator’s new book and why Communist China is America’s most dangerous enemy.
