Commentary
Émile Zola revealed the stark power of laying the facts on the table in his attack on the French president and his government for the unjust conviction and imprisonment of French General Staff Officer Alfred Dreyfus due to false accusations of espionage anchored upon widespread antisemitism.
In Frank Gaffney’s new book, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World,” he analyzes the crimes of the Chinese regime with the same amalgamation of forceful logic and incandescent outrage that defined Zola’s exposé of corruption in France.
Gaffney’s work (NB: Gaffney is a friend and colleague at the Center for Security Policy) addresses both the threat and the needed response. He explains why the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) existential threat to the United States was ignored for many decades. He demonstrates that there is increasing recognition of the danger, including of “unrestricted warfare,” the application of non-kinetic means of waging war against the United States, which is essential but insufficient—concrete measures must be taken against it. Thus, the book documents the crimes of the CCP against the United States and humanity so that readers will understand the all-encompassing nature of the threat and the critical steps of what must be done to defeat the CCP….