“Claws of the Red Dragon” will air on One America News
Network this Friday Oct. 25 at 8PM (runs 1 hour). Thomas McArdle and the
Editorial Board at Issues and Insights report:
To twist Lenin’s quip, it will be a
communist who sells capitalists the cheap advanced telecommunications
technology with which China hangs them.
A new and exciting movie was just
released illustrating through semi-fictional dramatization how the Chinese
government-controlled telecom company Huawei is a primary economic weapon in an
arsenal through which Beijing seeks global domination.
The names of the people and the
company are all changed, but “Claws
of the Red Dragon” dramatizes Canada’s arrest at U.S. request last
year of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s financial chief and daughter of its founder, for
violations of sanctions on terrorist Iran and other offenses. In retaliation,
Beijing detained two Canadians, an ex-diplomat and a businessman, for spying,
and retried a 36-year-old tourist serving a 15-year drug offense, sentencing
him to the death penalty.
It depicts a real life-based
Chinese-Canadian reporter reluctantly taking on the story and risking her life
to connect the dots between the company and the Communist Party and the Chinese
People’s Liberation Army. And the film goes behind closed doors to show the
scheming of party operatives whose sights are set on global dominance in our
lifetimes.
Having premiered over the weekend
on the One America News Network, which will show it again Friday evening, the
film is the work of New York-based Chinese-American New Tang Dynasty Television.
The production values and acting, particularly Dorren Lee as journalist Jane
Li, are top notch. Ex-Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who’s an executive
producer, hosted a press screening in New York City last week, where he
brandished a well-worn copy of “Unrestricted Warfare,” a 1999 book by two
senior Chinese air force colonels. They argue that economic warfare, attacks on
digital infrastructure, and terrorism can enable a lesser power to win a war
against the U.S., especially as part of a “grand warfare method” pairing
military and non-military tactics. Beijing hasn’t veered far off that strategy
in the two decades since.
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Full report is here. I have not seen this program and am giving
it the benefit of the doubt -- in spite of Steve Bannon’s involvement.
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