Xi Van Fleet: US Has Been at War With CCP Since 1921

The host frames the topic as the consequence of "the Chinese predations inside America."

The guest is introduced as Xi Van Fleet and given the floor.

The war, in her account, has run since the Party's founding in 1921.

At its inception, the Party named three arch enemies: Christianity, capitalism and the United States. The United States made the list because it embodied both Christianity and capitalism.

Van Fleet presented her new book as the reason her argument matters to the discussion. The book is "Made in America, the hidden history — how the US enabled Chinese Communist Party and created our world greatest threat, since the 1930s."

She said Americans have failed to understand the Party since direct engagement began, and that after almost a century many still do not grasp what the CCP is. Her book explains all of this.

The Party is communist first and Chinese second.

Van Fleet dated American engagement to the early 1930s, especially after Pearl Harbor. The motive was the belief that working with the CCP might help the war effort against Imperial Japan, and from the very beginning those Americans had no understanding the Party is communist first and Chinese second.

She credited Edgar Snow's book with convincing most Americans and American political leaders that the CCP was not really communist — that it was simply agricultural or agrarian reformers. Her verdict on that portrayal: "They were not."

She noted that Bannon had discussed people like Edgar Snow earlier in the program.

Her claim that the Party is "communist first, Chinese second" returned in this section as the core of what the 1930s Americans missed.

Van Fleet drew a contrast with the Soviet Union, which she described as an arch enemy during the Cold War with which the United States never had an armed conflict. With China, it was different: the Korean War cost tens of thousands of American lives.

She credited both Bannon and Gaffley with having mentioned earlier that more than 100 American lives were lost to the CCP's COVID. They are in the war, and it is not America's choice but the CCP's.

In closing, Van Fleet returned to the phrase that structured her whole argument — the CCP is communist first. She invoked Bannon's use of the word "Lenin" to mean average people.

Her final claim was that the CCP is the enemy of the Chinese people as well, not only of the United States. She stressed that the war is not America's choice but the CCP's.