Epoch Times - This is what would make the CCP really afraid | Amb. Sam Brownback
Aired: 2025-10-29
Duration: 01:56


=== President's Role in Framing Adversaries (01:55) ===

[00:00:00]  Ronald Reagan went at the Soviet Union before he was president, and he went at them on their values and their rights.
[00:00:08]  He went at them and he said, look at what happens to the Jewish refuseniks.
[00:00:12]  Look what happens to the evangelicals by the godless communist that he would use.
[00:00:20]  He'd use very pejorative terms.
[00:00:23]  But what he was doing, he's speaking with clarity to the United States community and the broader freedom-loving community about who we're up against.
[00:00:32]  And I do believe the president needs to start speaking in those types of terms about who we are up against.
[00:00:40]  If Secretary of State Rubio flew to Dharm Salah and met with the Dalai Lama and endorsed his third way approach of a separate independent Tibet inside of China, that freaks Chinese leadership out.
[00:01:01]  If the president were to meet with Falen Gong leaders in the White House, that creates huge pressure internally inside of China.
[00:01:16]  These are the sort of things that don't really cost any money, but the visual imagery of it, if the president were to meet in the Oval Office with a series of people that have been persecuted by Chinese Communist Party and just has them tell their story, that creates leverage because it shows what system we are up against.
[00:01:40]  And that's what we really need to do, in my estimation, more than anything right now.
[00:01:45]  This just isn't an economic competition.
[00:01:48]  This isn't a competition between the largest economy and the second largest economy.
[00:01:53]  This is a competition of ideals.